LonelyBoy said:
Etienne said:
I am really interested in this camera. Canon's first FF with a flip screen!
This will irk a lot of Canon Rumors readers, a group that appears slavishly defensive of retaining the mirror box, but "mirrorless sales are growing against a decline in the number of DSLRs sold" ... https://www.dpreview.com/news/0747159229/cipa-figures-for-april
Like it or not, the mirror will eventually disappear, or possibly will be offered at exorbitant prices for those with lots of cashe and who can't or won't adjust to the new tech.
1) Are we sure the 6D2 will have a tilty-flippy screen?
I think it will have a proper tilty-flippy screen.
I also hope the 6D line, as of the mark 2, will no longer be seen as 'below' the 5D. It will just be different, aimed more at the non-pro like me, who is willing to pay for lots of features that _help_ them take better pictures / video. Many of these features will be software based, like those seen in ML: focus-peeking, etc..
I don't here mean that the camera just has a big green button that says "go" on it. It should have that mode though (along with the little icons for landscape, portrait, etc.), but it should also help the user to learn how to set up all the controls in an appropriate way themselves. The ML features are sort of an example of this, setting focus correctly for max DoF, selecting exposure time, etc.. Other useful software features are better downstream integration with social media, and onto other various forms of post processing. Having full integration with the camera features of iPhone and Android would be one way to achieve this and I think is a far more pressing requirement than mirror-less IMHO. This integration also would enable the software (including the various social media integrations) to stay up to date beyond the release of the camera and provide a modern way for Canon to upsell to their consumers.
On this basis, it's even possible that the 6D mark 2 could cost much more than the ~$2k- often assumed. Which might be one reason to launch it alongside the cheaper SL2. The SL2 would then demonstrate that it's part of the same (new) line of cameras aimed at this non-pro market segment. It would run the same new software as the 6D mk 2 and have the same ML-like features in it.
So basically, I'm really hoping that the SL2 and the 6D are the first camera products aimed at seriously converting non-pros on the next stage of their photography journey, rather than seeing phones (and cheaper kit in general) as competition and (as it seems to me) putting their users off getting a dedicated (or more up-market dedicated) device.
And yes I would like a tilty-flippy screen, 36 MP, very good 4K, pixel IQ at least as good as the 6D (so overall IQ much improved with the extra MP). I will then buy this camera! and lenses! and lots of other stuff from Canon, just as I buy lots of other stuff I don't need from Apple - a company that learned a long time ago that the way to a consumer's pocket is through good design and that good UI software is a key part of this.
Michael.
