Andrew - EOSHD

Glad you got one. Have you compared the EVF to an S1, S1H, Z6, GFX camera, or similar yet?

Doctor, doctor. Help me, I'm crazy. Doctor: What is it Andrew? Divorce? Famine? Starvation? War? Ah it's just Canon. Doctor: Ah. Ok. They keep cripple hammering things. Doctor: Next patient!

The EOSHD Forum has been going since December 2011, so nearly 9 years now. What have been the single most popular topics during this time? https://www.eoshd.com/news/the-top-20-most-popular-cameras-of-all-time-on-the-eoshd-forum/

Pentax seem to have shunned the growing areas of the camera market (mirrorless cameras, cinema and videography). But as other manufacturers move on from the past will Pentax eventually benefit? https://www.eoshd.com/news/will-canon-nikon-leaving-the-dslr-market-boost-pentax/

Good point. Panasonic aways chose to add a special feature or two, to chase market share and they have provided supreme value for money over the years. Where is the 10bit full frame camera from the other manufacturers at the same price as the S1 for instance? Or anamorphic cameras for under $2K. But people see a Canon badge and go mental. Another crippled very high margin product. The same people who would deride the lack of IBIS or EVF on a cheap mirrorless camera under $1000 seem to give Canon a pass when these are missing at $5500. I do get that it's a cinema camera and image is a big step up from C100. It is by no means a poor camera. I just personally would have found an EVF very useful. I'd also have preferred a full frame sensor. IBIS is another big one. But yes if you are into crop sensor look with good dynamic range, I am sure the C70 ticks a lot of boxes.

I am wondering why the put the best chip and image in the stills camera. Full frame. 8K. RAW. So why not put that in the more expensive model as well?

It's a good idea but people don't care.

Canon's mythical cripple hammer needs a theme tune... an anthem. With this Berlin industrial dance band AND ONE I think I've found one. TURN THE VOLUME UP! Take this deadly tool and feel the daily routine You go to work for money and for me A cripple hammer here, a cripple hammer there Cripple hammer lovely tool you'll take it everywhere Cripple hammer lovely tool tell me what I am Treating you is the only thing I can Thank you for the money, help me to survive Cripple hammer, cripple hammer help me to stay alive Opinion on...erm... the C70 missing EVF https://www.eoshd.com/satire/cripple-hammer-here-cripple-hammer-there-canon-never-cripple-anywhere/

RIP C200!

My bank account is empty after EOS R5.

Canon can go and fuck themselves.

It's the youtube shit content merry-go-round again. May as well not talk. Just carry on pressing CTRL-P

Olympus were only outselling Panasonic in Japan according to what I've seen, and only with cheap cameras sold in high quantities... not in the pro market.

Time to make a new topics for your SSD talk. Thanks.

A7C.... No 10bit! Pana S5... No AF! YouTubers only slate the Panasonic.

1D C .... APS-C edition.

GoPro missed a great chance to branch out and diversify into other types of cameras. Just action cams? Missed opportunity.

Why are you stripping the https://www from YouTube links... Embed them with the full URL. Cheers

Miniature? It's a thick slab of mediocrity.

The Sigma Fp and even Canon RP is lighter than the A7C In some of the marketing Sony outright say "smallest and lightest full frame camera" as if their own RX1 series never existed. So much for honesty

Yeah. E-M1 Mark III makes for a much better vlogging camera in my view.

On the UK Sony site the small print is: "The α7C is the smallest and lightest full-frame digital interchangeable-lens camera with optical in-body image stabilisation" A weird confusion going on in the heads of marketing people there of optical IS and mechanical IBIS.

So this comes from Sony itself? It's basically an outright lie?

Of course. It should be a free market. There's anti-trust laws against collaborative market fixing and segmentation, nobody wants cartel behaviour. But what's going on here is not a balance and it's not even really a free market. It is a destructive race to demolish other Japanese camera companies, and Canon / Sony are the number one suspects. A race to appeal to the masses at the same time as significantly raising margins and pricing the average consumer out. A race to lock-in customers to specific lens mounts, and charge extortionate money for optics. If the consumer could freely choose more innovative products, and more countries and more diversification and more niches were catered for, then it'd truly be a free market. It's about less diversity, less competition, this isn't a win for us. If Sony and Canon succeed in killing Panasonic, Nikon, Fuji, Olympus, Pentax and even Sigma's fledgling full frame camera business, a duopoly will be created like AMD vs Intel. Personally I don't want this. I don't want a camera as dull as the A7C to kill APS-C Fuji X-Pro sales. Fuji X-T4 and X-Pro 3 offer so much more innovation than the A7C. They are strangling themselves. The camera range the A7C kills is the A6000 series. By using the A6600 form factor for the A7C, Sony is sending a message. That range is going full frame, more expensive, higher margins. But no new specs because they have to maintain the high margins. Same specs as the old camera (A7 III). Little investment in it, not even in new menus (crazy). Sure I am all for the concept of small, full frame, compact mirrorless cameras. Look at the Sony RX1R II. So much more innovative than the A7C. Look at Sigma Fp. Making an interchangeable lens high-end RX1R II with pop-up EVF is one thing. Slapping a bigger sensor in an A6600 and calling it quits, just to kill off other Japanese manufacturer sales, is quite another. And the prices of the Sony lenses is quite self defeating. But it is the soulless clinical blandness that bothers me the most. In this industry... Do we really want to end up with a dominant Sony and their soulless shooting experience, boring ergonomics, and Canon with their marketing games? Just those two? Rather than do something genuinely interesting in the APS-C market like Fuji has done with their rangefinder style mirrorless cameras, Sony has simply slapped a full frame sensor in one of the most unergonomic and boring bodies, it's the most unimaginative, most risk averse way to kill the crop sensor market I've ever seen. Customers will likely buy it instead of an X-Pro 3 or X-E3, because hey it's full frame and Tony Northrup likes it.

From the third department of PR at Sony... Sorry, I mean DPReview: "The Bionz X processor is also borrowed from the a7 III, which unfortunately means that all of the fancy new menus and touch functionality from the a7S III and its updated processor aren't included here." LOL!! "In the hand, the a7C feels incredibly solid, thanks to what's called a magnesium alloy monocoque construction. It's sort of like what US auto manufacturers call 'unibody' construction, and the result is a camera that's free of creaks and flex and exudes a sense of quality." Exudes quality!! Finally a $2K camera that is free of creaking noises and doesn't bend. Had been waiting for this moment for years.