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 p.9 #3 · update! Nikons mirrorless lens mount | |
zhangyue wrote:
Because they are mirrorless cameras and price them that way, are they?
What is more important, a forum label, or the target market?
In the end, people moving up from P&S cameras do not compare feature lists the same way we do, and may reach very different conclusions for different reasons. The m4/3 and NEX cameras are chameleons, disguising as easy cameras but with huge depth. The operation and controls of many of the models reflect this, and they are way above normal people, aimed solidly at the enthusiast market. I mean, some of these cameras have tilt&shift modes! Try explaining that to a normal person.
The Nikon 1 system, on the other hand, removes much of this complexity, and shows less, combined with some tangible benefits for those moving up, such as exchangeable lenses and high speed. It focuses more solidly on the knowledge that an average person has of a camera, i.e. almost nothing. Turn on, push one or two buttons, shoot. It tries to aim the modes at things that a normal person might want to do, instead of adding a million modes for all sorts of weird things.
Honestly, I don't know why P&S cameras were ever so slow, everyone hates that. Nikon has recognized this and made a fast camera aimed at, to take a stereotype, soccer moms, and other perfectly normal people leading normal lives who can take advantage of this speed, without needing a Nikon D3s.
To repeat myself, I think Nikon has shown very clean thinking with this camera, and if they can market it correctly, they will quite possibly clean up. People have shown a willingness to pay this kind of money for a good camera.
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Another point repeatedly made here which also demonstrates how focused we are at gazing at our navels is that since m4/3 and NEX exist, and have larger sensors, Nikon should do the same.
If you think about it for a very short time with a clear head, you will realize that Olympus and Panasonic have nothing to lose, having no DSLR range with larger sensors, and Sony is transitioning their DSLR range to SLT and NEX cameras with a great deal of compatibility.
Nikon has a very successful and profitable line of DSLRs, from the D3100 all the way to the best FF DSLR ever made, the D3x. It would make no sense for them to announce a new line of cameras which would overlap significantly with this strategy, causing confusion in the market and possible cannibalization due to poor positioning.
There is nothing holy or magical about the APS-C mirrorless, and the 2.7x crop is perfectly viable. It has some advantages and some disadvantages compared to the m4/3 and NEX lines.
Personally, I find the more interesting NEX cameras to be too close to my D3 in capability and IQ, while not reaching it, so they make little sense to me. I am not looking to replace my D3, but to augment it. The Nikon 1 is quite an interesting system, and I am happy to see Nikon introduce a new system like this with no holds barred, i.e. fast processing, high shooting rates, quality construction, and so on. Compare this to a lower end m4/3 like the E-PL3 or the NEX-C3, and the Nikon starts to look quite attractive.
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As an aside, there is a diagram in this month's Foto Magazin (Germany) comparing sensor sizes, and I was surprised to see how close m4/3 is to APS-C. Listening to the IQ hubbub around here, you would think that APS-C was 10x larger. Not so.
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