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novicius wrote:
Time to change the leadership at Nikon ....
I think that you may be right but Nikon is fairly traditional/conservative in approach and management style so I dont expect this to happen.
However I do believe they need a shake up so that they address the new advances in cameras and maybe incorporate them into a camera that is sold rather than just tested in--house.
It is interesting to see the multiple approaches that Nikon take in their R&D. Apparently the Nikon museum in Japan has a myriad of different cameras that have been built but only tested in house before being dropped.
Maybe we will see a revolutionary Nikon D5 with mirrorless technology that focuses as fast as current DSLRs or better and only weighs half as much but takes all the current lenses. That is what I want.
An FX camera that uses mirrorless technology but with great AF capability that uses the current F mont lenses but it weighs less than 1kg. So a Nikon 1 V2 on steroids.
Trouble is Jonathan, it's not just the body weight. Good quality Nikkor glass is heavy too. It's the combined weight that needs to be addressed. Putting a pro lens on even a D7000 body somehow doesn't feel balanced and is still heavy compared to the Fuji system.
There must come a time when the technology of smaller sensor (= smaller body) cameras is good enough for all our needs...in just the same way we heralded the D3 to be 'as good as film'. Personally I am at that point now!
I know that a plate camera would have given me much better images than an slr. But I wasn't prepared to go to the expense or commit the time for such an overkill. Most of my medium format commercial images found themselves in quarter page ads in poor quality rags where a compact would have been good enough! So what was all the point of all the extra detail? In just the same way that most digital images never leave the screen!
Maybe I am just played out with serious photography? LOL
I now content myself with taking decent 'snaps' wherever I go, with the lightest, least cumbersome package.
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Eric