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The end?

Started Nov 9, 2021 | Discussions thread
Chris 222 Senior Member • Posts: 1,981
Re: The end?
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RLight wrote:

Chris 222 wrote:

Well, it's clearly not the end of vague, click-bait thread titles at DPR...

This is a gear forum; for effective purposes, expect no new PowerShots, except the gimmick pick cameras that share the PowerShot name. I’d call that the end.

That was not your title! And I think you know that full well.

FWIW my initial thoughts were:

End of WHAT?

- this forum?

- the world?

- RLight? is he terminally ill?

I’m not suggesting PowerShots are defunct, not yet anyways, the models we have now will be supported in parts for a few years and have effectiveness for some time to come as well. But for a forum that largely revolves around new gear, there isn’t, and won’t be new releases. For me it was a lightbulb moment when I realized the clickbait folks doom and gloom event has finally arrived.

Now the title was meant to both draw a reaction, and is a form of expression for myself. I almost didn’t start this thread, but, sometimes I just do it anyways. Other times I hold my peace. Apologies my expression here offended you.

I'm not offended. I was simply surprised, and yes, a bit disappointed since I had read quite a few thoughtful posts from you in the past.

I’m trying to wrap my head around it myself and having others chime in helps.

This I completely understand.

Wish Canon could’ve done another crop sensor leaf-shutter offering with weather sealing though. I’m shedding a emotional tear over here if you will. There’s just a perfect storm of smart phone tech, Covid shortages, and Canon refusing to release things that compete with itself in addition to market conditions. The reality is what we got is it. Moving on or staying for a while is all we got.

Aside from your disgust at the thread,

Huh? No disgust fro me! I think what you are saying here is called projection... you are blaming someone for something you regret you did.

Not criticizing you, I've done it many times LOL.

do you have any constructive thoughts to add?

So much on my plate right now (insane work schedule, several articles/resources on this site, including a review of my G1X3, if I ever get to it...etc. etc) wish I could reply in depth, but here are a few quick thoughts, partly based on relationships I've had with industry folks, some going back over 20 years:

- this consumer imaging industry evolves at a snails pace and has long been its own worst enemy (blaming dumbphones for a 90% drop in shipments over the last 10 years won't solve that.)

- Canon, having the typical arrogance of the "big dog market leader," will be losing much of its lead, or worse, within the next few years. Sony has been making strong gains and Nikon will almost certainly have half a million orders for the Z9 alone by year's end (apparently an industry first, I hear Canon honchos are freaking out... as they should!) Note that I'm not saying that Nikon doesn't make mistakes. Abandoning the Nikon 1 system, to take just one example, was a huge blunder. Had they not, there is no doubt that they would have absolutely dominated the 1" sensor market.

- Chinese entities will gobble up most of the current Japanese brands (in whole or as "sub-brands" like Lumix... up to 95% of the parts they use already come from China anyway) over the next 10 years.

Its very telling when even Sony has only released a vlogging RX100 in recent events. And likewise, Canon updated the G7x III firmware, but that’s it. In Camera makers eyes, that’s all that’s left of the market appparently.

Give them another couple years. Their sales are barely rebounding after a catastrophic 2020.

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