DPReview TV: 2019 New Year's Resolutions

My resolution is 4096 x 2160

Great sense of humour guys. (no not humor spell check)

Camera makers need to make a deal with Alphabet/Google or combine resources to form their own Computational Photography/AI camera software.

As many other asked, what reason does it have to skip Pentax? 2020 may be a important year for them with some new products.

Lots of comments here are critical that there was no mention of Pentax in the video.
Omitting Pentax was very poor.
I don't suscribe to any of the conspiracy theories that DPR is biased against Pentax but not responding to any of the comments and at least offering an explanation or apology for that ommission is equally poor.

No, no, no Jordan... Sigma, please don't listen to him. A modular Sigma fp with a Foveon sensor!? Crazy idea. A roomy SD1 Merrill-style (but mirrorless, of course) body is a far better idea. Kazuto Yamaki has already said that's where they're going. There are really good reasons too. The Foveon needs to be cool, so yes a heat sink but it's a stills-only camera so it needs to be comfortable to hold. You video-philes may want modular everything but we landscapers don't; we have enough to do with tripods, ND filters, et al. Maybe a hybrid optical/EVF but that's all.

I just want a conventional-looking camera with a brilliant Foveon sensor inside.

Is there any reason why Pentax was not included on your video?
Does it means that like you, it is almost perfect, so any resolution will compromise its perfect balance?🙄

Canon: enough BS, get your sensors from Sony
Fujifilm: get a grip
Nikon: more Z lenses
Olympus: sorry
Sony: get the freaking colors right
Panasonic: decide where you are going to
Leica: time to sell the company to Cartier
Sigma: just keep cranking lenses, don't waste time on dead bodies

Hmmm .. I think DPReview tries to pretend Pentax do not exist.

But anyhow. Please Pentax, we need two things in 2020.

1. We need an APS-C camera with really good AF.

2. We need the lenses you have in your road map, now! Please hurry up!

Then there is a bunch of things we need in 2021, but lets take that later.

Canon...bring out a weather resistant M6 Mk II with two card slots and call it the mountaineer...made especially for photographers who carry their own gear into difficult areas. I guess a couple of matching weatherproof lenses wouldn't hurt either.

My resolution: never, ever to put a can of petrol on top of a woodstove.

DPR: after 10 years, finally review Pentax's Astrotracer feature. And remember to start talking about Composition Adjustment again.

New year's resolution for all camera makers:

Join forces and agree on standards for things like lens mounts, lens contacts, AF protocols; just like ANY OTHER INDUSTRY did in the past.

None of you will win the war against smartphones alone. If you don't unite and demonstrate to the world that a full frame lens will fit ANY system, you are truly doomed.

The unwashed masses will just shrug it off and keep filling Instagram and Facebook with poor smartphone shots; but then there will be no more upgrade path for those who discover photography as something more than casual snapshots to be uploaded, swiped away and forgotten in an instant.

Pentax/Ricoh:

just make a mirrorless camera for crying out loud!

My resolution: today we already have some fantastic gear available. Before being too critical about it, learn to use it and try to produce some good work. Products keep improving but is your work! When I see jaw dropping work done some 50-70 years ago, I think equipment is secondary to the art of photography.

Please SONY do a pro body for your pro cameras.
Today they are are build like the first digital Canon I had - the D30...

Sony, this is 2020; it's time. Replace the old slots on your A6400 line - that support Memory Stick Duo - with UHS-II card functionality. Photographers are starving while they wait for buffer clears!

That gas canister is just ugly. You need to sit one of your kids on top with feet dangling in fron of the flames. Have them play with a streamer ball to keep them occupied. Then place some fireworks next to your kid on top of the fireplace. That would really be the symbol of great parenting.

*brings out gas cannister*

*literally adds fuel to the camera industry fire*

1. Dpreview: Continue to include film based technology and cameras. Film is again on the rise, continue to take this into account - not just with hipster film stuff but also with serious film development techniques and maybe also review very liked film cameras for 35 mm, medium, and large format film. The connection to digital is made by using vintage lenses on MLCs - more info and examples about this would be good.
2. Leica: Slop the SL camera series and merge it with Panasonic fully. Instead focus on making digital M with hybrid EVF and rangefinder focusing systems as mentioned here. Focus less on collectors and more on potential customers. Be more competitive price-wise (probably not gonna happen but anyway).
3. Sony: Improve finally the cumbersome firmware update procedure, software, and manuals. Give the A7/A9 series a better - maybe vintage? - look.
4. Canon: I am not going back to them no matter what they might do and release.

Pentax - release v2s of all those DA* lenses getting rid of those dodgy focus motors (and in some cases, dodgy optics). And make some new DA Limited lenses - remember most of your customer base uses APS-C, not full frame, and they want more of the lovely little primes you're famous for.

And would a 35mm f/1.4 standard prime for APS-C be too much to ask for? I suppose it must be, I've been asking for one for ten years. It's only the about the most important lens in a camera company's line-up.

Sony.

Admit A-series DSLR cameras are now officially dead, do those still clinging on can get on with their lives

My Fuji wish list

1.new ibis platform. Olympus and Panasonic can fit one in their cameras, in a much slimmer package than the xh-1. Ibis is pretty well standard on most mirrorless platforms today, and Fuji is behind the curve
2. Back port the M.E. xpro feature to xt-2/3. A proper M.E. was why I bought into the Fuji platform, but I have found unusable. In fact invest in computational photography, since that is the future
3. Stop pretending that Fuji lenses have some sort of special sauce. Yes some of them are very good, but so are the competition. By allowing sigma etc to make lens for the platform, the gaps in the lineup can be filled.

Extra. No more novelty items like the film display on the xpro. It silly, wastes money with no value, and makes the cameras look like vanity projects, rather than creative tools

One more resolution to all camera manufacturers from me:

I wonder if their is a chance of sucessfully implementing other color filter arrays like e.g. RGBW for better high ISO performance and DR. I could immagine that with modern high resolution sensors and new software tricks (machine learning, AI, computational photography or whatever one may call it) it may be possible to reap the advantages of an RGBW filter or other possible color filter arryas and avoiding the downsides (lower color accuracy).

OK. So, is it a given that Pentax is dead? It's not even on the list. One New Year's resolution would be the return of Pentax with product.

Please Fuji keep the current screen mechanism of the X-T2/3 and do not replace it with a Fuji A7 style screen.

But listen carefully to what Jordan said about your face AF integration. Please do also check if their is no chance of improving the face/eye AF of older models as the X-T2 / X-20 / X-Pro2 via FW update. Face AF is more of a spec list feature on this models and not very useful in real live as faces are only recognized when the are pretty close, AF is not really sticky, faces cannot be chosen and eye AF does not work in AF-C.

The Fujifilm label on the gas can. A hint regarding their battery design.

Well..
DPR - make changes on your comment section, give us an option to block some annoying trolls, more moderation,
Canon - ditch AA filer on your sensors, ibis in all new bodys, make M6 II style camera with integrated EVF and I'll by one, since you screw it up with too many mounts (unlike Sony and Nikon) for milc, now work more on new lenses for apsc. Days of glory, 10 yrs ago, are gone, get real.
Nikon - folks, great body's, well built, hire more software people, please more lenses for Z system, "dual card matters". Days of glory, 10 yrs ago, are gone, get real.
Sony - Pay to Canon to educate you how a proper touch interface should be done, better rear screens, MRaw/SRaw please, improve qc, FE 24mm 1.8
Oly - just stay alive, we need you...
Sigma - more excellent apsc lenses like f1.4 trio (16,30,56), 24mm would be great, wa zoom also...

I would have liked a resolution To better comment and forum moderation to remove all this useless 1 to 10 posts bathers and trolls.

New Years resolution for Dpreview:
1) get to system usability reviews than reviewing features. Basically what really matters - the current cameras are all competitive. Most users are never going to use many of the new features - but appreciate better usability and importantly things like how many lenses are available new, how many available on the cheap on the used market, etc.
2) Do not be so Sony focused - they are not Canon of 10-15 years ago. Phil Askey's dpreview was never so Canon focused then - no reason for Amazon dpreview to be so Sony focused now.
3) If you have a video review - include text transcripts - most folks do not have time to go through videos but can scan through text quickly.

No mention of New Year''s resolutions for Pentax. They must be doing everything right!

Can't wait to see Sigma's Quattro Formaggio -- and a line of thin, flat, round "pancake" lenses...

... with ricotta, mozzarella, parmesan, parmigiano, of course. Lots of ricotta, please

Nikon, DON'T IGNORE your mirrorless and DSLR APS-C lines or treat them like the family dog that just gets leftovers. At time I have no plans to switch over the FF Z cameras and their Ferrari price lenses.

It will be interesting to see which of these actually materialize in 2020.

I do think we'll see a pro Canon EOS R model, that we will see more affordable RF lenses, and that we will see some exciting DSLRs from Canon, including their 1DXIII, and eventually a 5DV. So I actually think Canon will do pretty well fulfilling this wish list, although we may not get the 5DV in 2020.

I think Sony will not redo their menu system or change their color science. I don't think they'll add lossless compressed RAW; for some odd reason it doesn't seem within them.
I doubt we'll see an a7siii, because I think they've killed that line to protect their video cams. I think their a7iii was meant as the nearest thing to an a7siii model. And they can't do what Panny did with their SH1 without a much larger body and some better cooling system. So I think Sony will not fulfill this wish list.

If Sony don't add 10-bit internal this year it'll be the end for them video-wise. Panasonic have completely upped the bar this year.

I'm waiting for some small (pancake would be fantastic), affordable z-mount primes!