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p.4 #2 · p.4 #2 · Article posted on Dpreview re: Canons lack of innovation | |
"I challenge you to find anyone who has been more passionate about using and promoting your products in the general photography community than I am." "Yours sincerely, @tassiegrammer. Passionate Canon camera user & brand advocate."
Hard to take it seriously when his Twitter has 430 followers. I have 640 followers after I've blocked about 300 fake and suspicious accounts (terrorists, rapists, spammers, "eggheads" - no profile photos, you name it...), I have been using Canon since 2005's venerable 20D and would never ever proclaim myself "Canon promoter and brand advocate".
In spirit of these sentences, and as was pointed out by several users, almost everybody holds Canon to some crazy double standards. I remember when Nikon D800 came out, almost every wedding photographer was crying "what am I going to do with those huge 80mb files? I can only fit 200 photos on my memory card. Tis f***d up man...". Now this dude is crying because 30mpix isn't enough BECAUSE he's ENVIOUS of Nikon's 45mpix and Sony's 42mpix offerings.
While I love creating BIG files via pano stitches, the simple truth is, I don't *need* them at all. The last physical prints I did myself were a couple of A3+ prints for the exhibition and A3 photobook that featured (sometimes heavy cropped) sports photos. And what do you know, they both look great, originating from only 16mpix. I guess I should be envious too because the neighbor has bigger pee pee than I do...
He says the IQ of 5Ds/r is worse than 5DIII which is not true. He claims that every other manufacturer has had a touchscreen in their top level cameras for ages, which is again, not true. He claims that in many cases, the 6D performs FAR bettter than 6DII, which again, is not true. I could go on and on.
And all the whine about the sensors with incredible quality sensors - look no further than the blurred, noise infested (both color and luminance) eclipse photo posted on DPReview pushed 5 or 6 stops, claiming how amazing it is. Nuff said.
The Canon double standard is nothing surprising on DPreview. I'm pretty sure when it was sold to Amazon, Askey put a line into contract "Owner must bash Canon whenever possible because they didn't tell me about 1D3 and didn't invite me to the event."
I'm not saying Canon didn't screw up 6DII in many ways or didn't poorly implemented 4K into 5DIV. They need to realize we're getting back to the ways of the film days, where the "sensor" was exactly the same on entry level and pro bodies. And since the 40 - 50% increase on Canon pro gear (combined with the letargy of photo business, everybody is whining about the needing to reduce costs, not needing quality photos for their presentations and so...) it's very hard to lay down the cash to a half baked product like 6DII which I would've bought in a heartbeat if it had more AF coverage and slightly more current sensor tech. Now I'm waking in the middle of the night going back and forth if I should buy 5DIV, which costs the same as my brand new 1DIV did and has everything except good 4K (not needing it right now, but who knows) or spend the absurd amount of money on 1DxII which does everything well (including 4K).
And the praised (unsurprisingly on DPreview) A9? A camera that - only shoots 12 bit RAWS at 20fps (something Canon stopped using 10 years ago), has very limited weather and dust sealing, has very limited battery life compared to Pro Canon and Nikon, has questionable ergonomics, it's longest f2.8 lens appears to be 70-200, focuses visibly worse for video compared to Canon... yes... because it's great to have killer video when it can't keep up even for such mundane tasks as vlogging...
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