Alec

Conversation between management and engineers:
"ok that feature you said you could do that we told you NOT to do because there wasn't market demand, and also prohibited you from independently...

Case in point: to live-stream from my SONY camera, I need https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P7Q1WYL

To live-steam from my Samsung Galaxy Android phone, I need nothing of the sort. This dynamic doesn't...

Craig, that's sound reasoning. That said, besides gravitas/heritage/brand equity, Nikon has patents and a large customer base. SONY did really great with Minolta's camera and lens engineers (nearly...

Hopefully SONY will buy them within the next 36 months. Given what they've been able to do with MINOLTA SLR & lens engineering heritage, if they add Nikon they'll be even more competitive.

ozturert, Toni, you both make good points. That said, there is always a sizable range between "what we can deliver with all-out effort" and "what management thinks we can get away with delivering...

Evidently it takes a 80% drop in profit for the company to consider giving users an actually innovative product, as opposed to minimally viable.

The diagram depicts DRAM built into the sensor. So it has nothing to do with the shortage of 3rd party stand-alone off-the-shelf DRAM chips.

I've bought their bundle, and am ok w/ paid upgrades so long as they don't require them in each subsequent year - and they won't 'Wait until [the upgrade] actually includes something you want to...

Hence the reason for my original comment, cosinaphile. Does this look similar?

https://www.konicaminolta.com/us-en/index.html

lancet I love A900. I am still operating two of them, w/vertical grips. I even have cute A900-shaped USB sticks (the "body" is the USB cap, and the "lens" is the USB stick that mounts on it). Those...

cosinaphile Minolta has not had the resources to challenge Canon and Nikon - even before the lawsuit they were languishing, relatively speaking, as a distant, quirky 3rd choice. There's absolutely...

Would I prefer an independent, strong, innovating Nikon to being acquired by SONY? Yes.

But better acquired while they still have institutional culture and strength, than ridden into the ground...

Revenant, HowaboutRAW: my point of the comparison exactly. Nikon, like Minolta, has other lines of business outside photo cameras and lenses - which are more profitable and not suffering from the...

I wouldn't want to see Nikon follow Kodak and rather hope it will follow Minolta (namely, will also be acquired by SONY)

Yes! And they could even have detents (at least the infinity one) if desired or a latch to firmly lock the distance setting (and its weather seal) in place.

Who says it needs to
(1) only be used narrowly as the action camera (as opposed to a compact robust camera for all sorts of uses), and
(2) be actively focused by folks using it as the action...

Back-Bone is a company that modifies GoPro and other action cams, swapping the built-in fixed lens for a C-mount. This costs real money and voids the warranty, but the results in favor of being...

Sorry?

These look pretty good. Would love a focusing lens (no need for autofocus, just a manual range focus or at least "closeup - 6ft/2m - infinity" settings).