Re: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV Specifications
dilbert said:
Eldar said:
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2x64GB 1066x Lexar is currently on offer for $109 at B&H. Canon's decision to keep CF is a clearly positive.
Old technology always goes on sale for "cheap" prices once it becomes clear that the ability to sell it in the future is limited. Lexar, B&H and others can already see the market for CF shrinking so they want to clear out as much of their expensive stock that they've got lots of.
Just tossing it out there that cost for cfast will not go down and match the cost of CF like everyone seems to think here, not for a long long time. there just aren't enough devises out on the market that create demand for cfast, which means production won't upscale and without that, cfast stays at lower production levels and carries a higher cost. In 5 years this may change, well, in 5 years this will change but in 5 years we'll have the 5dmk5 and 1dx3 and 5ds2.
One thing to note as a definite stumbling block here --- SD is universal, you can use it in pentax, sony, panosonic, olympus, nikon. CF is used in most of these too, but, when it comes to the next level, there is the nikon canon split with cfast and xqd. if and when xqd fails and nikon adopts cfast for their d* series bodies (and maybe even D8**) then maybe that could help ramp up demand which will mean ramped up production ----then you get less cost. But hell, the d750 only uses SD cards, and most to all mass market consumer products are also using SD.
And so the old adage remains - if it ain't broke don't fix it. CF is perfectly fine for most to all needs of most 5d series users. Cfast on the other hand, it's a gamble. It's odd because on some fronts we have ---bigger = better, more mpix and 4k or it's not worth watching, but, on the other hand we have a culture that wants smaller, more internet sharing friendly formats. Even video on my 3 year old phone is too big to post to facebook without being mashed to bits - why is this something that matters? Well, where does the consumer video market go? Are people in that segment screaming for video that is only shown via projector, huge, home cinema style 100" televisions with 10k res???? Or, are they looking for net sharing, phone and tablet viewing. If it's the latter, then cfast will move to more and more consumer products (this will drop the price). If it's the former though, then cfast, xqd, and CF get crushed by the smallest, cheapest, most universal and (IMO) crapiest formate --- SD.
Last statement, totally agree with neuro on the point that adding cfast to the 5d4, for a huge part of it's potential userbase is just adding extra cost for no real world gain. The only segment that cfast helps is video folks. On the still shooter side, unless your shooting fast action, you rarely ever find situations where you couldve gotten that shot if only you had faster memory cards. I miss more due to slow flash recycle time, lol. All cfast does for a still shooter like me is add an extra $600 or so to the cost of the system. That comes with absulutely no gain. I'd rather spend that $600 on advertising, flash modifiers, beer and whiskey....
