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The end?

Started Nov 9, 2021 | Discussions thread
Chris 222 Senior Member • Posts: 1,981
Canon Powershots's future
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marksee wrote:

I don't mean to be a smartass,

Well... you are! LOL

but I wonder what you would have said about smartphone capabilities 20 years ago. My guess your words would have been verbatim. To think there are limitations is shortsighted. Technology defies limitations and will continue to amaze us in the future.

Worse, no offense meant but  you seem to be one of those wide-eyed, smartass Geekheads who blindly believe that technology can and will solve everything.

Yes, tech has brought us some conveniences but it has also already destroyed much of our Life Support Systems. Just open your eyes and look around...

But back to Canon Powershots future. No tech buzzword will ever make up for the fact that there will never be a phone that even remotely approaches the overall performance of my G1X3, to take just one Powershot example.

Actual performance is a combination of the tech inside with ergonomics, usability, versatility, WR, etc. and a thin, slippery tech slab with little to no physical controls cannot even compete. It's s simply impossible with that form factor (Motorola had a very promising attachment with a 10X optical zoom designed by Hasselblad but they were bought by Lenovo, which was dumb enough to abandon development of that line... Had they kept developing it, I have no doubt that they would have the lead by now.) .

There is a small but noticeable number of phone users who want a real camera. I suspect that number will grow much larger as people get more and more aware of their phones' strong shortcomings. Will Canon respond and update their compacts? I'd say they have another year or two to wake up and smell the coffee...

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