romanr74 said:
dilbert said:
Chaitanya said:
Typical Dumbass Canon behaviour, its time to drop CF slot already. Pretty sure Nikon will drop CF from their D810 replacement in favour of XQD.
You obviously don't read CR very much - keeping CF will preserve the "huge" investment many Canon photographers have already made in these cards. That these cards represent an obsolete interface and obsolete technology is beside the point - they still work and people want to keep using them until, well, until they die. While people will be happy to buy newer, faster, CF cards from time to time, buying new CFast cards is just out of the question (even if they're faster.)
Sorry, but this is just complete bullS___. At some point in time you'll have to make the change and I believe we are either very close to this point or past it. What disk slot does you computer feature: 8", 5.25" 3.5"? Ah, tape, sorry nevermind...
That point is when the capacity and/or speed of the recording media becomes a limitation. That was true for the 1D X II for CF, but if it's not the case for the 5DIV, then changing format just for the sake of it becomes a needless additional expense for buyers.
For the 1D X II, it was a needed expense – and Canon helped defray that cost by offering a free card+reader bundle. Doing so for the 5DIV's much larger sales volume would be quite costly. While that doesn't matter to consumers, I can assure you it matters to Canon.
No doubt Canon has data from consumers to support sticking with CF being better for sales, it's also better for most consumers, who likely already have CF cards and readers.
Too bad you can't double the capacity of a CF card by cutting a notch out of the other side and flipping it over.