Yes but we should all be ready for it. For when we kick the bucket and we go to the big gig in the sky, we do, you know, have a choice of what dept we can go to right? Many here will go to retro nirvana, where everything is as they remembered it, you know, the good ole days!!! LoL
Everybody has their different needs. I hope they NEVER stop putting the SD cards in ANY camera. I learned that 20 years ago when traveling with my first dslr in Colombia. Try to get a CF card in a 3rd world country? Not gonna happen, let alone a fancy fast card!
John, The problem with modern cameras cannot operate with AA batteries. If they did you need wheelbarrow full of AA batteries as well and the camera would take 10 of them at a time. Your third world shop will have nothing left as you would have depleated their stock.
Good luck making the R1 operate with AA batteries! Or any modern camera.
Heck no. Just keep on giving me the ergo/controls of the R5! I'll be happy as a clam! :-D
Or they're simply happy with their phones and don't perceive a need for anything more.
Meanwhile, Canon holds 45% market share while Fuji has 4.7% .
I don't have sales numbers for the R50, R10, and R8, but those aren't cameras pros buy (except maybe the R8 as a third or fourth body). Real amateurs, as opposed to enthusiasts, don't seem too into dedicated cameras these days. Enthusiasts tend to want gear specialized for exactly what they are interested in, be it birds, other wildlife, landscapes, or whatnot.
Product categories can be defined at an arbitrarily fine grain, and Canon has finite resources. They have to make decisions about what they're going to cover.
It wouldn't take much R&D, just stick the innards of a R50 or R10 in a different body.
It's still a lot of design work, detailed design, tooling, re-jigging of production lines, manual writing, stock control etc. that would be better spent on an R5 II. I can already buy a Fuji if I wanted an APS-C camera aping a 1970s 35mm camera. Its lenses would look the part better too.
LoL, funny you should say that because that's exactly what Nikon did with the Df!
That stainless steel S&W is not retro, however. It's a modern version of revolver. Retro would be something like a Heritage Barkeep.I have a beautiful stainless steel Smith & Wesson revolver, rather than an ugly plastic bodied Glock, so I am open to retro.
If I was to (gasp!) buy a Nikon, it would probably be a Z fc.
Canon should have something to compete in every product category.
As I said, "I can already buy a Fuji if I wanted an APS-C camera aping a 1970s 35mm camera. Its lenses would look the part better too". What is Fuji's market share if you leave out the (decidedly non-retro) Instax cameras?
It’s just like the cameras that are sold in various colors. It’s really about looks. I don’t think Canon had good luck with this sort of thing in the past so I’d not be surprised if they are hesitant now. I think the something for everyone was said more in a practical sense (they have all the price points covered).
No thank you to DSLRs or MILC with AA batteries. It would make them much larger & heavier, and increase the size & weight being carried in extra batteries. I don't mind AA NiMH so much for flash, I'm generally good with 1 extra set of 4 batteries. But I recall the AA tray in the vertical grips for my DSLRs needed 6 AA batteries (I never used the tray for that reason). The power requirement for mirrorless is even more due to the EVF.
Ever tried using a touch screen in situations where the screen itself would be distracting and possibly forbidden to be used? Button positions can be memorised and put into muscle memory, touch screen use not so...Canon touch screens rule.
