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I'm too stressed to watche this one for an hour, but thank you for you kind thought.
Ever so often Tony mis-speaks or gets a technical detail wrong, but overall his photography instruction is quality stuff, and I give him some leaway.
But this time, well, I couldn't finish it. Things got too weird.
Once again, he is insisting that Olympus have not developed on-sensor phase detect auto focusing (in the video he stated that neither Panasonic nor Olympus had PDAF). He has made this comment in other videos and I thought at one point back when that he just meant that Olympus needed to improve, further develop their PDAF, but no I played this one back a few times and he is saying that Olympus don't have PDAF (which isn't true, of course).
Then at about 13:50 he states that Panasonic will probably abandon μ4/3, his reasoning being that it would be ridiculous for Panasonic to develop two systems simultaneously. Really???? I wonder what he thinks about Panasonic supporting compact cameras, consumer camcorders, and all the professional broadcast and filmmaking video equipment as well? Why doesn't he think that such a huge corporation as Panasonic can support more than one digital MILC which Canon, Nikon, Sony, and even Fujifilm do? Yes, Pentax seem to be straining a bit (God bless them), and maybe I forgot someone. Strange.
There were some other flubs, but these two alone are pretty egregious IMO, and methinks that Tony's judgement is somewhat clouded here.
I'm too stressed by Tony Northrup's video now to watch these other ones, perhaps tomorrow...
To me, the interesting point is the 'it would be ridiculous for Panasonic to develop two systems".
Obviously, just pausing for a moment to think about the logic of this is crazy. Not only do other, smaller companies support two systems and no one makes these remarks. but Panasonic is not even supporting either of these systems alone.
Yet but both opponents and supporters of m43, express the view that Panasonic is 'betraying' 4ms by adopting a 35mm FF systems, and will logically need to reduce or quit involvement with m43 as a consequence.
It made me wonder:
Why are so many people drawing such a clearly illogical conclusion?
I have come to the conclusion, m43 and full frame has collected supporters or fans in the way football clubs collect fans from around the world. If football clubs like Liverpool can collect supporters from around the world with no logical connection with Liverpool who have their happiness affected how the football team performs, then clearly there is a supporter/fan mentality that becomes important to people and become part of their identity.
This not only happens with football, it also happens between brands, and is even cultivated by some companies as it gives extremely loyal customers. Advertising for such brands strongly feature customers of the brand, rather than just the products alone, with the goal of creating an image of the user of the product, not just the product.
Somehow this identify seems to have formed around m43 vs FF, in such a way that it seems like Panasonic supporting both formats is like a football coach who helps coach a second team in the same competition.
Logically, Panasonic entering an additional market segment should be like Maserati releasing an SUV, in that it expands the R&D budget and makes the brand stronger overall. Even some purists complain, no-one said "so they will have to stop making sports cars now because you can't make both".
Somehow, m43 vs 35mm FF, is a more passionate (and less logical) subject than sports cars vs SUVs.
People thinking this way may be illogical, but it does seem to be real, and may even unexpectedly damage 'team m43' even though logically Panasonic going further into imaging and mirror-less should make things stronger.
It is hard to see how this illogical but widespread
feeling of Panasonic 'betraying' m43 can be overcome.
