You're missing the point. Originally the 1D series was both: 1D for action, 1Ds for high resolution landscape/studio. Canon eventually made the cheaper 5D series the landscape/studio camera.
The post I was responding to claimed that Canon would never make a 90D good enough to serve as a 7D mark III because Canon would never do 'something like that', make a cheaper series replace a more expensive one. But they have. And let us not forget that the xxD series was once everything people came to expect the 7D series to be: tough sealed magnesium bodies, action orientated, etc. Canon introduced the 7D so that they had room to make the xxD series more 'prosumer' orientated. Who is to say they aren't merging the lines again and the xxD won't be every bit as tough as the 7Ds were?
And what if the 90D uses the rumored M6 II sensor and can do 16 fps (mirror up) with AF/AE? Then what?
The badge is not 'magic'. The specs determine what the camera can do.
Apparently you are missing your own point, dear dtaylor.
I wrote "
You cannot realistically expect that Canon will deliver a camera named xxD and priced at around USD 1400.00 to be as good an action camera as a camera from the xD-series..." and then you replied with a comparison about a landscapeing/studio camera (5D), derived from an action camera (1D).
Apparently you also missed that I explicitly wrote about
action photography, not the landscaping/studio that you introduced and based your wrong conclusion on.
But your comparison does show something that we can use for our expectations of the 90D as an action camera: just as the 5D is no better
action camera than the 1D (your comparison, not mine), so will the 90D not be a better
action camera than the 7D Mk II.
I really do not see why you want to argue that statement by introducing irrelevant comparisons and misrepresenting the specifics of what I wrote.
And also, I never said Canon could not make the 90D to be a good all-round camera; in fact I wrote that I expected the opposite to be the case .........
So once again, especially for you I will repeat what I wrote:
the 90D will never match the 7D Mk II
as an action camera, let alone that the 90D will be an improvement on the 7D Mk II
for action photography.
PM To refresh your memory, I wrote that in reply to an earlier post that expected the same from the 90D and drawing the conclusion "
I'll stick with my 7DM2 for as long as I can".