daniela said:
Hi Mikehit!
If Canon would listen to our wishes, they would have given us more dynamic range on the 6D MK II and 4K
What I like at the Alpha 9 is the quiet burst shooting mode (and this is an big plus if you shott in the near of birds), the low noise at >1600 ISO and the tracking AF (when our model jumped with the skateboard, the nearly field covering AF followed the head precisely)
I agree with soloyc - more DR is certainly welcome but not top of the list. And even then, the 5DIV, 80D and 1Dx are so close to Sony in practical terms that to pick the 6D2 as a criticism of Canon as a whole is stretching a point.
As for 4k? That has been done to death so many times and is probably way behind DR as an essential upgrade.
I have a 7D2 and 6D and the quite mode is excellent, but I also have a 1Dx2 and have not scared any birds yet even from as close as 5metres.
The coverage of AF points is not a result of Canon's inability to design effective AF but is about their preference for phase AF rather than contrast AF.
But overall, many (nearly all) of the non-sensor advantages of the Sony arise from its design as a mirrorless camera and for some very good reasons Canon has decided to remain concentrated on DSLR.
When Sony get anywhere near the success of Canon then I will have more sympathy with comments as to whether Canon listen to their customers. Bear in mind Canon is #2 in mirrorless as well!
I am not being a fanboy on this by any means - I would love to have all the functions that Sony offer in Canon DSLRs. But it is all about balancing the different priorities from the masses of marketing feedback that they get and when people talk about 'listening to customers' then the only true test is how many customers by their products (ie do they get the balance of issues right). Otherwise 'listening to customers' is really nothing more than 'listening to me'.