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Just saw this ebay find in his blog. That would be $8600 today. Canon R1 is now $6400 after tariffs. Even Trump gov is not greedy as 2013 Canon.

They don't even let you change the broken front glass of the 360 camera, then tell their army of YouTube influencers to say its not a big deal. With either mount, winning the heart and brain of professionals is very hard. I end this discussion here cause we're way off topic under a Canon thread.

The difference being DJI don't want to be another player with 5% market share.

It would be funny while everybody talks about DJI camera rumors, Viltrox introduce a video camera with L mount. It makes sense from their perspective. They don't compete in still photography at first, to keep the Japanese owners of RF/E/Z unconcerned. But in cine/video, would target Panasonic and BMD.

In both cases the market was nominated by just one brand, and both market was a growing market. Full Frame ILC market is an oligopoly of three major brand, with almost no growth. Its even worse situation than when Samsung tried to enter APSC market.

They have enough money to outsource lens making to a domestic company like Viltrox. I didn't say they would release a camera with DL mount. I think they're not interested to enter this market at all. The entire ILC market is 6 million units per year, and L mount is a small part of that small market. But if, for whatever reason, they want to enter this market, they should stick with their own mount. Otherwise that would send this message that they don't believe in their own system.

Ooppsss... Sorry Andrew, please delete double posts.

Nikon is currently supporting RF mount with RED cameras, it doesn't mean they will make a RF mount mirrorless camera. In every transition process, support for non native mount makes sense; but its only a transition. If the ultimate goal wasn't to fully committed to their own mount, they wouldn't make it at the first place. There is also the Japanese side. Why you take their permission for granted? Why they should license their mount to a Chinese giant with billions of dollars of R&D? They can eat Panasonic for breakfast.

Nikon is currently supporting RF mount with RED cameras, it doesn't mean they will make a RF mount mirrorless camera. In every transition process, support for non native mount makes sense; but its only a transition. If the ultimate goal wasn't to fully committed to their own mount, they wouldn't make it at the first place. There is also the Japanese side. Why you take their permission for granted? Why they should license their mount to a Chinese giant with billions of dollars of R&D? They can eat Panasonic for breakfast.

Nikon is currently supporting RF mount with RED cameras, it doesn't mean they will make a RF mount mirrorless camera. In every transition process, support for non native mount makes sense; but its only a transition. If the ultimate goal wasn't to fully committed to their own mount, they wouldn't make it at the first place. There is also the Japanese side. Why you take their permission for granted? Why they should license their mount to a Chinese giant with billions of dollars of R&D? They can eat Panasonic for breakfast.

Nikon is currently supporting RF mount with RED cameras, it doesn't mean they will make a RF mount mirrorless camera. In every transition process, support for non native mount makes sense; but its only a transition. If the ultimate goal wasn't to fully committed to their own mount, they wouldn't make it at the first place. There is also the Japanese side. Why you take their permission for granted? Why they should license their mount to a Chinese giant with billions of dollars of R&D? They can eat Panasonic for breakfast.

That's the point. You can't make your system based on other parties structure that you can't even modify to be compatible with your proprietary features. And nobody can manage 3 mounts at the same time. Even a volume focused giant like Canon couldn't and ditched EF-M mount. This DJI camera with L mount is not even a rumor. Its a fantasy made by YouTubers who are struggling with Japanese camera menu system and wish an outsider make a modern one, while let them use Japanese glass.

Still doesn't justify licensing the L mount. It sends a terrible marketing message. And looks even more stupid when you remember their cine camera is DL mount. Everybody in the industry is trying to make a platform based on their mount that bridges between their still and cine line. DJI adopting L mount for FF still and DL for FF cine and drones, and another mount for Hasselblad is beyond stupid.

How you take 6k raw which is 6144 from 6936 pixels without crop? Its only 12% crop, but still crop. Any why on earth DJI should make a camera with L mount that has no control on when has its own mount with its own lenses?

You can extract pure Copium element under SAR comment section. How these people forget Canon owns 50% of the market? Of course they can and will make competitive camera.