AcutancePhotography said:
So lemme get this straight. Some guy who performs on a youtube channel where they parody stuff says that camera X "kills" camera Y and people are concerned with it.
Oh, but it's even worse.
Kai wrote a blog post that he titled "Sony a7r II: the Canon 5Ds R
killer". This has been picked up and transformed into "Sony a7r II
has killed the Canon 5Ds R". Not bad for a camera that has barely been announced, is not even on the market, and that only a handful of people have actually had the opportunity to try. But it has gone for the kill already. The deed is done. Murder, she wrote. Your shiny new 5Ds is now dead. Sorry.
Of course if you read what Kai actually wrote, it may be another story. Things like:
"Different products, different targets. For sure, someone will be eagle-eyed enough to spot that they're not meant to compete with each other: the 5Ds R is meant for professional photographers, mainly current Canon users, and for a small number of enthusiasts who want to have incredibly high resolution stills images and not much else; the a7R II is meant for enthusiasts who want to have incredibly high resolution stills images, video and a lot more."
or
"I'm not going to say that the Sony a7R II is a better camera than the Canon 5Ds R, I'm not comparing the cameras as such. But what should be compared are the approaches of the respective manufacturers of each camera. [...] When you look at what Canon are coming up with and then what Sony are doing, you can't help but think that Canon are holding something back, playing it safe."
Fair points imho, and far from "Camera A has killed Camera B".
But then again I clearly have a lot to learn about writing titles for blog posts ... like when someone can take an interview where a Sony exec essentially says "Yep, we hear people complaining about lossy RAW, if enough of them complain we may do something about it, some day, and technically it could be done in firmware" and turn it to a "Uncompressed RAW coming soon in firmware update !!" headline. :
