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 p.2 #20 · Re - would you buy 39mpx, 5ms read, 30fps, CFEx | |
Scott Stoness wrote:
On a statistical note, there have been 2500 views, with about 18 votes, 6/18 33% say they would buy at $2500. But the majority of views have not voted, ---- the fact they clicked on it suggests interest, but not voting suggests they are not overly interested ? And more R5 family interest than r6 interest. ? They don't get to see results without voting.
The votes are too few to be indicative but it suggests the R7 is of more interest to R5 family than r6 family - which I guess is logical. R5 have more budget and would consider. R6family likely have less budget or they would have and r5 family. And R7ii would be expensive.
But 18 votes out of 2500 is not very reliable statistically. But not voting (no results) does indicate they don't care - not interested in R7II. 18/2500 suggests a very small market opportunity and Canon needs to focus on upscale (5ms $2500 r5 family and abandon r6 crowd) or downscale (15ms $1999 family and abandon r5 crowd). A hard choice for Canon....Show more →
Scott,
We had 10 people say they would be interested in buying the camera at all and 11 people say they weren't interested. It is hard to know what to make of that. It is indeed a very small number of people responding and the sample is likely not at all representative of potential camera buyers. Given the views it also seems likely that only a small percentage of people who viewed the poll responded to it. Meaning there is even a greater chance that the survery doesn't represent potential camera buyers well. We also don't know of the people who viewed the poll how many are R5 family owners, how many are R6 family owners, and if any owns something else (not a Canon owner but perhaps currently own an R7, which might be an important group). I am one of the 10 and I own a R5, but I also own an R7. Is such an owner more or perhaps less likely to buy an R7 II? Unfortunately, the poll doesn' really help us answer any of these questions.
What I think we do know is that Sony, Nikon, and Canon seem to have treated APS-C cameras as a bit of an after thought and FF cameras as their core products. They make way more lenses for FF cameras. They make many more versions of sensors for FF cameras. They introduce almost all their new technology (e.g. stacked BSI, global shutter) with FF sensors. Sony for example has had a stacked sensor BSI in their FF cameras for 9 years and haven't yet made an APS-C with a stacked BSI sensor. They even make such a sensor for Fuji, but haven't put it in their own cameras. Nikon only has two APS-C sensor cameras and they feature the same 21 MP sensor, so they are not focussing on pixel density at all. And for DSLR's it was Nikon that arguably built the best APS-C camera for wildlife in the D500. Both Sony and Nikon has set up APS-C as their low end cameras. Canon has made the R7 and it is a bit higher level than anything from Sony or Nikon, but just a little bit. It has higher pixel density, a better mechanical shutter, and a little bit better EVF. It looks to me, however, that Canon has positioned their cameras as R100 for lowest price, R10, R7/R8, R6, R5, R3, R1. The R7 sits where it does as a more action oriented alternative to the R8 which provides a FF sensor. The question is will Canon up position the R7 II as an alternative to the R6 (I think that would be a 24MP stacked sensor with a 8ms sensor scan speed) or will they even position it as an alternative to the R5 (I think a 39 MP stacked BSI sensor with 3ms sensor scan speed is really an alternative to the R5). I don't think they will move this camera up in position, but we will see. I think it will be an alternative to the R8 and will be a 39 MP non-stacked sensor with about a 15ms sensor scan speed. I suppose we will know before too long.
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