Corporate culture lives on. After Nikon introduced the D100, Canon
announced the D60. Then came the 10D. Now the 20D. The D100 is still a
fine camera even though the D70 improves on it in a number of areas.
When a replacement is announced this year it is likely it will outlive
several Canon competitors. Olympus is an even smaller company and I
think it made a mistake with a 5MP flagship camera, from a marketing
point of view. I think the E-300 will probably be around several years,
but there will be lots of pressure for a successor to the E-1. Unless
there is some major breakthrough in noise handling, I think the 8 or 10
MP in a reasonably priced camera is going to be a stable increment for
quite a while.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Feb 3, 2005, at 4:05 PM, AG Schnozz wrote:
> I was at the local purveyer of fine photographic goods and
> glanced in the used camera cabinet. I saw something that caused
> me to think about the current state of the camera industry.
>
> There was not one, not two, but seven used EOS mount film
> bodies.
>
> If I remember right there was a rebel, three various 600 series
> bodies, a 700 series body and two EOS-1 bodies (one an N).
>
> Canon has introduced so many EOS mount bodies through the years
> that most of them are lost in history. With the exception of the
> Rebel and the EOS-1 bodies, all others were "the next best
> thing" which were quickly subplanted by the next followup model.
>
> All were fine cameras, no doubt. But Canon, went the route of
> rapid development and product introduction with a new EOS body
> every four to six months. The end result is that most of these
> bodies were incremental improvements over the previous model.
> With the exception of the EOS-1 and the Rebel, most of these
> bodies are barely remembered and none are revered.
>
> History is continuing to repeat itself. DSLR development is
> rapid and incremental. These camera de jours are short-term
> solutions and rapidly heading towards being erased from history.
>
> Nikon and Olympus can't keep pace with Canon's incremental
> improvements as history shows that their modular design
> methodology allows them to always slipstream improvements in to
> stay one step ahead of the competition. However, when Nikon has
> introduced the next version, they usually create one that is
> quite memorable and instantly becomes a "classic" in the
> timeline of history. With the exception of the F4, this has
> been true.
>
> A quick study of history is allowing me to look beyond the glitz
> of the 20D or even the D70 and keep things in perspective.
>
> AG
>
>
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