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 Re: New Era for Canon L zooms | |
rscheffler wrote:
If DSLR cameras and lenses still work for your requirements, then what's the problem? The downside I see is eventual lack of repair/service support for older equipment. But this was also true for earlier generation EF lenses replaced by second and third generation models, and also older EOS DSLRs.
The reality of our consumeristic society is there's no sitting still. There will always be something new and eventually backwards compatibility will be dropped so that manufacturers can sell more new products.
You can look at mirrorless has glass half empty or half full. You choose. From my point of view, mirrorless has introduced real improvements, particularly in the area of AF, subject detection and tracking capabilities. Sure, it's nice to have somewhat smaller, lighter cameras, but that was never (for me) a high priority. The average human hand is a certain size and if you make a camera too small, it will be uncomfortable for the average person to handle. I'd rather 'right sized' cameras, which IMO the R5, R6 are. I also appreciate that Canon is releasing some rather unusual lens designs. I love the image quality of the 28-70/2, the compactness of both 70-200s, the tiny 16/2.8 despite its need for heavy software-based distortion correction, the 28/2.8 pancake (I thought you were excited about this one?), the 100-300/2.8...
As someone using this gear professionally, the new 24-105/2.8 makes a lot of sense because hybrid stills/video work is becoming more and more the norm, as much as I'd prefer to do stills only. And as good as the EF and RF lenses are for stills, many are not well designed to also do video nicely.
This is the reality of the market that Canon is addressing. While us 'old timers' on these text-based forums might be more stills-centric, video is a capability that cannot be ignored when addressing the current mainstream market conditions. And that video optimization is going to come with certain feature tradeoffs for stills photographers. IMO there is a broad middle ground to accommodate both and it appears Canon is beginning to take this more seriously outside their cine line.
Excellent reply and I fully take on board your views. 👍🏻
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