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 Re: Z8 vs R5? I'm just curious... | |
johnvanr wrote:
Would be interesting, because if the Z8 and R5 kind of match, then the ball is now squarely in Canon's court to come up with a Z9 competitor, which the R3 isn't.
This back and forth is simply the way it works. Brand A comes out with a new thing that is The Very Newest and Bestest Thing Ever... until a few months or a year later when Brand B comes out with its next new thing which is (off course, technology progresses!) a bit better than the Brand A thing... so it is now the new Very Newest and Bestest Thing Ever. But lurking in the shadows, Brand C has been working on their new thing, and a few months or a year later they introduce it — and, of course, it beats the specs of A and B in some particular ways by some small but arguably measurable way. Eventually it is Brand A's time again, and they come out with their next new (or upgraded) thing, and now IT is the Latest, Greatest, Coolest, Most Advanced Thing Ever. ...or a few months until B or C or maybe D or E come out with their next thing.
Getting sucked into this FOMO loop is a giant waste of time and a distraction from photography. All current camera makers are producing remarkably capable equipment that exceeds the needs of virtually all of us.
Imagine two photographers:
One of them bought into a brand — A, B, C or something else, it doesn't matter. This photographer built a system around that brand, and it works well. It isn't "perfect," because nothing is. But it is excellent, and our intrepid photographer learns its ins and outs, develops instincts for it, and makes excellent photographs with it.
The other photographer bought into one of these brands... and six months later when one of the other brands introduced their Cool New Thing, photographer #2 became very concerned that their existing camera was no longer The Very Best Thing With The World's Greatest Specs. So our photographer #2 switches— sells off that existing gear, sets up a system with the next brand, sits back smugly thinking, "Now I have the GREATEST GEAR EVER!" Then, six months later, the third brand comes out with a system that has .08% more framus and a bogulosity factor of 2X with Super-Mega-Maxi Image Optimization Parametric AI Software. So, again, our intrepid photographer #2 sells off the old stuff, catches the hype train, and buys into brand #3! And once again has the Very Best Thing.... for the next six months or so, and then the old doubts return.
Now imagine hanging photographs from the two photographers on the wall. Do we really think that photographer #2's work is going to be better? Seriously?
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