Why are marketing departments obsessed with action sports?
In the camera world there’s four approved kinds of marketing content – boxing, surfing, snowboarding and free-running. Now, unless I’m very much mistaken one of the surfer dudes has let something slip.
In this Instagram post Levi Siver is working on a windsurfing feature with a crew, for an “unreleased Canon camera”. In the picture you can indeed see a Canon camera on a rig, although not clearly enough to make out the model. In the comments he’s asked if it is a 5D Mark IV, and in his reply he says “Yep it is”, smilie face.
I don’t have my own rumour rating system but if I were to rate this one, I’d call it a Big F*****g Leak.
The wind-surfing quite possibly suggests Dual-Pixel AF will play a big part of the new marketing campaign, or that the whole thing is a massive ruse by girls in marketing departments so that they can upgrade their boyfriends. I’ve often pondered this thought, as I troll around another skatepark full of ripped torsos, me squinting through a pre-production camera wearing a badge saying “NERD FOR HIRE”. If it were up to me, I’d do something different from now on. Filming cheerleaders for instance, or burlesque stripping ladies.
