Hi Asher,
While we may thank the producers of one camera or the other, I do not like the incremental improvement/upgrade game they play with us the consumers at all. Release just enough improvements into the next model so that a lost market share can be regained. And repeat this in ever more frequent cycles. And let the consumer pay over and over due to endless upgrades and marketspeak. I am sure I am not the only one having these sentiments. I think we all should know for ourselves when enough is enough and draw a line somewhere.
Cheers,
Alain,I agree. However, while we do not have control over what manufacturers do, we do have control over what we do.
Ask yourself how much better your photographs will be if you get the latest camera model, whatever that might be, when compared to what your current camera gives you.
Alain Briot said:Ask yourself how much better your photographs will be if you get the latest camera model, whatever that might be, when compared to what your current camera gives you.
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Also ask yourself *what else* you can do to make your photography better *besides* buying a new camera.
...but I fail to see how it can result in a more artistic image.
I still use my 350D. It does most of what I want, and until I've learned how to use it properly I see little point in upgrading.
When it finally dies, what do I replace it with?
I don't want video; live view would be nice but I can live without it; I certainly don't want 18 sardine MP. A 50D with 12 decent sized MP and no video would be perfect.
I almost bought one of the last 40Ds but invested in two new lenses instead.
Completely agree with this statement. I'm a great fan of Galen Rowell's work and his book 'Mountain Light' often inspires me if I am lacking in creativity. It is not the technical quality of his images that stands out but their artistic content and the vision behind them. I find the same with many of the images in National Geogrpahic.
Of course resolution and other technical matters have their place, but for me the artistic merit of an image should always come first.
There's no doubt in my mind that Canon could ship a Foveon like 18 MP full color 1DsV in 3 months if they wished, that's how far ahead they are in R&D.
And there is no doubt in my mind that this is baloney. If Canon could wipe Nikon out of the pro market, they would not hesitate to do so. Nikon took quite a bit of Canon's market share due to the focus problems of the 1DIII, so why would Canon deliberately hold back if they could retake that so easily? I think that the 1DIV will be a great camera and will sell very well among Canon pro shooters (I will get one for sure), but I doubt it will lure back many photographers that went over to the dark side recently.
Well I beg to differ! The Original Series of Star Trek had the flip open communicator already from the word go. If that isn't the granddad of mobile phones, I don't know what it is ;-).... Tele transporters and warp speed are still science fiction, but nobody predicted the cell phone! ...
That sounds a lot like the automated toilet cells which one sees in France regularly. And the F1 Hotel chain along the main roads where you can stay for a very low price. But joking aside, I get where you're coming from. As an avid sci-fi fan I could not help but react...The most funny prediction was that all furniture would be plastic, and that the vacuum cleaner was replaced by some kind of fully automatic wet cleaning system, that would flood the floor with a few inches of water (hence the plastic furniture) and then such it dry. Automatically, during your absence, of course.
OK, maybe the cell phone was predicted by Star Trek, but in most science fiction films it doesn't exist.
I want a Tri-corder ;-)
True, we just have to wait and see. One of our most famous local comedians once said; "it's very difficult to make predictions, especially about the future" and he was right. Technology hardly ever goes in the direction that everybody thinks it will go. Look at the old StarTrek series and other science fiction stuff, and what they predicted would happen. Tele transporters and warp speed are still science fiction, but nobody predicted the cell phone! The next Canon camera(s) may be completely different from what we all think it will be.