DPReview.com is closing April 10th - Find out more

Would you pay more for 4k in the M5? If so, how much?

Started Nov 28, 2016 | Polls thread
havanna60 Senior Member • Posts: 1,640
Sony is eating Canon's Cake
2

nnowak wrote:

loitokitok wrote:

Obviously it's a small base but if approx 70% (at the time I looked) say they wouldn't pay more and don't care that's

The voters are the EOS M community and this percentage is perfectly fine. since the users for whom the 4K is important/relevant are all in another groups for a long time.

it's omitted (and these are mostly gearheads who are more likely to care than anybody else) then doesn't that suggest that Canon have probably got it right in their decision not to include it?

Canon is very generous letting Sony eating Canon's cake.

Look at it the other way, 30% want the feature. That is actually a pretty high percentage for what some consider a niche feature.

Hi N.Nowak,

I am a follower of your comments for a long time. Here is my case to support your arguments; I am "sadly" still not an EOS M user, despite the M5 would be a nearly perfect camera for me, but no 4K at the end of 2016 for a $1000 camera, no way, I'd buy one. Likewise, I haven't upgraded my Sony A5100 to a more expensive Sony/Fujifilm camera, since they had no touch-screen, no GPS.

Try running a similar poll for ISO 25,600, or intervalometer, or GPS logging, or burst rates, or flash commander, or any other feature that is rarely used by the majority of users.

Actually, the market is so hard for cameras against smartphones, that all camera manufacturers should have included everything imaginable into these cameras to justify the $1000 - 1500 prices. Samsung was the only one on the right track, but they decided to quit from the sinking boat of cameras.

Honestly, paying the high prices for cameras like what we have today is insane. Features are terribly important to include. Check out the feature list of an iPhone 7 vs an camera like the EOS M5/A6500, the IPhone is far the best feature/performance/price.

I had bough a number of cameras (too many, I think) including a Nikon Df, which doesn't even have any video, and I've just realized recently that a $50 Canon AE-1P or EOS33 full-frame film camera along with an iPhone 7 is perfectly enough for any photography projects. Videography is much more challenging, but smartphones are really great for enthusiast video projects.

-- hide signature --

Thank you for taking the time reading. I use DPReview as my photography/videography blog. If you like it, click Like, or leave some comments.
Have fun on http://www.flickr.com/photos/99398503@N07/sets

 havanna60's gear list:havanna60's gear list
Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D Nikon D700 Nikon 1 V1 Sony a7 Sony a5100 +9 more
Post (hide subjects) Posted by
G-D
M02
Keyboard shortcuts:
FForum PPrevious NNext WNext unread UUpvote SSubscribe RReply QQuote BBookmark MMy threads
Color scheme? Blue / Yellow