tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post2964896481891408209..comments2024-03-27T00:32:29.877-07:00Comments on Photos and Stuff: Innovation IIamolitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-28996603215422332762016-03-30T18:49:56.699-07:002016-03-30T18:49:56.699-07:00To be honest, we seem to be talking at cross purpo...To be honest, we seem to be talking at cross purposes.<br /><br />For reference, this isn't the blog where you come to learn that Canon sucks, or that Canon is awesome. I neither know nor care, and there are plenty of other blogs (e.g. every single one of them) where you can learn that. Let me repeat that: I do not know, nor do I care if Canon (or Nikon, or whoever) is awesome, crappy, innovative, stuck in the 1970s, or whatever.<br /><br />This is the blog where you come to learn that it, surprisingly, doesn't much matter if Canon is or is not innovative, awesome, crappy, or whatever. The market forces are only loosely related to those things, and are ultimately the driving forces in play here.<br />amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-25801338848848989602016-03-30T16:52:47.375-07:002016-03-30T16:52:47.375-07:00But I thought Chevy killed the electric car.
I&#...But I thought Chevy killed the electric car. <br /><br />I've been selling cameras for 18 years now and even when Canon used to have the "lead" they were a marketing company. <br />Want a lens hood with your lens? Buy an L series and it comes with otherwise it's an extra. New camera? Great. No, your old battery won't fit, sorry. (They have gotten much better with that one.<br />More than once they changed a model number of a product and nothing under the hood changed.<br />A lot of people seem to forget that Canon was the company that kept telling us more megapixels was better than they were the first ones to hit a ceiling and call it good. <br />They were also the company leading the new model a year charge for quiet a few years.<br />I do like that companies like Fuji, Olympus and Sony will do firmware updated to their cameras that have some use. Canon and Nikon seem to bring out a camera and say "this is what you want." No? Oh well, wait till the next model and we might have something different on it.<br />I really don't know what kind of innovation either Nikon or Canon can make that will keep their users happy but I do know that while mirroless sales are "flat", in our store we probably sell about a third more mirrorless cameras than SLRs. I think the trend will keep going that way. Smaller and lighter with good/great quality is a plus for many.photosbyhankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11638627481264697860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-42689996419023412452016-03-30T13:19:44.879-07:002016-03-30T13:19:44.879-07:00That kind of my point. The major players are never...That kind of my point. The major players are never allowed to be leaders. They can build the same old stuff and be dumped on for not innovating, or they can innovate and get dumped on for failing. All this has very little to do with the actual products but a lot to do with customer perception.<br /><br />What they can do is dominate whatever the new 'same old stuff' is.<br /><br />Chevy could never have built a successful electric car until the innovators did it first. Now it's the same boring old stuff, and the Volt is a viable product. Before the Prius, Chevy could have built an electric flying car with a 1000 mile range and a submarine mode, and it would have gone nowhere.<br />amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-64441799726168951422016-03-30T12:18:34.765-07:002016-03-30T12:18:34.765-07:00Canon might be loaded for bear in the future but s...Canon might be loaded for bear in the future but since they still shoot blanks at certain things I'll not hold my breath waiting to see that.<br />I just unpacked the new Canon Elph 360HS to put on our shelf here at work and the only difference this camera has over the Elph 350HS it's replacing is, get this, manual focus. WTF is Canon thinking?!? Oh sorry, not the only difference as it's $100.00 more for the new model with the exact same image quality and a listed lower battery life. <br />Canon may very well have been a leader in digital technology in the past and they may again get that title back but that's certainly not what I see here at the retail level.photosbyhankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11638627481264697860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-58753813870423101322016-03-27T19:30:15.460-07:002016-03-27T19:30:15.460-07:00Thank you. A new perspective on the age long quest...Thank you. A new perspective on the age long question, why so little innovation from the established players. I don't like taking the blame, but there is sound logic to your article. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-42860566632092370432016-03-27T02:56:31.497-07:002016-03-27T02:56:31.497-07:00Yep, yep, and yep. Yep, yep, and yep. Williehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12340234422334227647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-85864736138346465362016-03-26T15:28:25.649-07:002016-03-26T15:28:25.649-07:00that's a great explanation. Damn.that's a great explanation. Damn.Kirk, Photographer/Writerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10817860941525302936noreply@blogger.com