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Re: Welcome to the powershot afterlife
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Rambow wrote:
Phones can't replace a 24-600mm equivalent lens, so that's a non issue.
Canon lost the game before anyone had even realized it, because by the time sony reinvented the wheel with the rx100 in 2012, canon didn't even bother updating their S120 camer lineup to match or surpass sony, which they were perfectly capable of doing.
When they eventually released the G9X, it was already too late and the camera was more of a copy than original concept. The price was OK though, much cheaper than a sony rx100 III from what i remember.
As a pocket camera user i have been dissapointed by canon's build quality in this sector ever since i got my canon S90. Nice series of cameras with very good video quality, but they had the same build quality as the cheapest canon in the line-up, which made me weary of buying them.
And even though olympus caved in even faster than canon by never developing another XZ camera, i have to say the XZ-2 still is a fantastic camera, so tactile and well put together, not too pricey either. So olympus could do this but canon couldn't?
Canon had all the time and resources to learn from others, they didn't. What did they spent the last decade thinking about, nobody will ever know.
At least they're mirrorless cameras are doing OK at the moment from what i hear...
The unexplored alternative, which I brought up years ago: the Sony 1” stacked sensor.
Should someone do a multi-lens, multi-sensor version of it in a dedicated platform that marries smartphone concepts of multiple prime lenses utilizing deep learning, simulated bokeh, and multi shot augmentation, with a larger format also capable of high speed readout, and, and to it a DO telephoto lens? It could be a one stop shop for most photographic needs.
The cost would put it up there with larger rigs, but it’d be tiny compared to them. Probably isn’t going to happen for some time due to cost and market conditions; corporate politics too. Shame, it would be a super, point and shoot.