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You know, I have to really give it to Canon...

Started Sep 19, 2017 | Discussions thread
Kung Fu
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Re: You know, I have to really give it to Canon...

rpm40 wrote:

You're right. I have always been a fan of both Olympus and Fuji, with their classic styling, good manual controls and nice jpegs, but both have been pretty quiet on the enthusiast front.

Fuji has their x100 and x70 which are nice, but I think they are too set in their ways regarding their sensors, and the old 2/3" from their compacts doesn't excite now that the competition is cramming 1" sensors into everything.

I admit, I don’t understand the popularity of Fuji cameras. They’re expensive, have AF from 10 years ago, cheap fixed non-touch LCD screens, and feel like hollow plastic. The silly viewfinders aren’t even 100% coverage.

Olympus has stagnated, with no real follow up to their nice XZ-2 and Stylus 1, and I am guessing they are facing a similar problem- the smaller sensors they are used to using are out of favor, and getting a foot in the door to get 1" sensors is a big undertaking considering the lower number of cameras they sell. I have been hoping for a long time that they would put an m4/3 sized sensor in some enthusiast compacts, but to no avail. I bet Olympus could come up with a beautiful competitor to the Panasonic LX100, and I have always thought a compact digital Trip would be very cool, with an m4/3 sensor and 35mm lens.

Olympus has bet all their chips on m4/3, and that’s it. It may be simple economics. But they haven’t made a camera that’s excited me since 2005.

I think what we are seeing right now in the enthusiast space is that the brands who are able to innovate are those that have the resources and access to modern sensors in the popular sizes. The one brand that skews my theory, though, is Nikon- they have the means, and they have plenty of experience with 1". Now that they killed off Nikon 1, I have no idea why they decided their 1" enthusiast compact line was dead before it hit the shelves.

Bad forecasting, poor QC, a declining dslr market, still behind Canon in LiveView and video. Nikon’s list of problems is long.

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