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EOS Bodies / Re: Leaked photo of 5DIII/X to be 38MP ?
« on: February 17, 2012, 04:16:31 PM »
I believe we have to keep in mind who bought the 5DMKII. I don't have numbers obviously but I have the feeling that the majority of the sales where made to
1.Wealthy enthusiasts that are mostly amateurs with money.
2. Sales in the video industry and video amateurs
3. PRO as a secondary or third camera for the "dirty" work.
If they want to maintain the success with the 5dMKIII they have to focus mainly on the first 2 groups and also please a new group of people: owner of the mkII that want to renew.
The first one, doesn't care about high MPs, they don't want to deal with the heavy size of the files generated by a 40MP camera.
Owners of the mkII could care less about MPs, they know they have enough. They have been waiting to upgrade, and they want high ISO, shoot fast in low light. However, Canon needs to be appealing enough and avoid the "good enough" effect.
Second group is a all different word, I have very little knowledge of video but clearly high MP is not a must. They want low noise, high ISO I believe.
Third group, they can probably pay for the 1Dx and they'll get the hight MP to go with the 1Dx and they won't care about a camera too close from what they already have. But only Canon knows what % they are in overall sales. So yes, I guess they would want the high MPs and they will by for sure the 1Dx if they get this high ISO with the mkIII.
This brings use back to a 22MP high ISO camera, with slower images per second than the 1DX and even software slowed down, autofocus needs to be as sharp as the 7D but not more.
To me, the problem will come if they release a high MP in the range of the Nikon D800. This will be a mess. I won't know what to buy cause I don't want high MP because it's useless for the group 1 where I stand (besides saying to your "point and shoot" friends that you have a 40MP camera and they will be a lot more impressed than the guy having a 1Dx) . And I won't buy a 4 year old camera (MKII) even though it's a great camera. I'm not buying something that will disappear from the market a few month later even if they keep it at first.
Or Canon could please us all by release 2 cameras, 5DMKIII with hight MP and a 5Dx with low noise high ISO!
I just don't understand why they are waiting so much. I hate it. They are really lucky that Nikon went the high MP way.
1.Wealthy enthusiasts that are mostly amateurs with money.
2. Sales in the video industry and video amateurs
3. PRO as a secondary or third camera for the "dirty" work.
If they want to maintain the success with the 5dMKIII they have to focus mainly on the first 2 groups and also please a new group of people: owner of the mkII that want to renew.
The first one, doesn't care about high MPs, they don't want to deal with the heavy size of the files generated by a 40MP camera.
Owners of the mkII could care less about MPs, they know they have enough. They have been waiting to upgrade, and they want high ISO, shoot fast in low light. However, Canon needs to be appealing enough and avoid the "good enough" effect.
Second group is a all different word, I have very little knowledge of video but clearly high MP is not a must. They want low noise, high ISO I believe.
Third group, they can probably pay for the 1Dx and they'll get the hight MP to go with the 1Dx and they won't care about a camera too close from what they already have. But only Canon knows what % they are in overall sales. So yes, I guess they would want the high MPs and they will by for sure the 1Dx if they get this high ISO with the mkIII.
This brings use back to a 22MP high ISO camera, with slower images per second than the 1DX and even software slowed down, autofocus needs to be as sharp as the 7D but not more.
To me, the problem will come if they release a high MP in the range of the Nikon D800. This will be a mess. I won't know what to buy cause I don't want high MP because it's useless for the group 1 where I stand (besides saying to your "point and shoot" friends that you have a 40MP camera and they will be a lot more impressed than the guy having a 1Dx) . And I won't buy a 4 year old camera (MKII) even though it's a great camera. I'm not buying something that will disappear from the market a few month later even if they keep it at first.
Or Canon could please us all by release 2 cameras, 5DMKIII with hight MP and a 5Dx with low noise high ISO!
I just don't understand why they are waiting so much. I hate it. They are really lucky that Nikon went the high MP way.