I don't wish they go under, not by any means. But figure if they don't adapt they'll fail and deservedly so.
Time stands still for no one. And in todays here now gone in 8.9 days world of technology the changes Nikon, Canon, Pop Photo and others either adapt or die.
Panasonic teaming up with Leica a while back was a great idea. Nikon, Canon, and Pentax could learn from that. Nikon for example with their lineup of looking glass items or prescription glasses is what I mean and Pentax could team up with folks who make drones or those upcoming smart helmets.
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Boy I got hit broad side this evening with just how drastic the changes are. My wife and I shoot photos for a local school play group and I had taken about a 2 year break. Frankly just a couple of years ago out of the 200 or so audience members there were several point n shoots and a few DSLR's using tripods and monopods.
Tonight I roled up in the joint with a D7000 clamped to a monopod draped over my shoulder. Nothing unusual I thought. The drama teacher approached my wife and said "oh good somebody is going to take pictures"... my first thought was yeah me and 22 other parents. Nope.
I had the only SLR in the place and zero point n shoots were being used. Heck no tablets either. WOW! I had picked a 55-300 lens figuring no big deal taking more pics of the wifes boy and a few of his friends and had only a pair of 4 gig cards in the slots.
Instead of shooting a couple of dozen pix I needed to shoot hundreds tonight in order to get at least a couple of good ones for each cast members parents, whether they be stars or extras. Luckily I had recently been using the D7000 in some low light scenarios and had tweaked the iso to give me quick shutter speeds while still hiding noise pretty well on my 18" laptop screen. Thinking 8x10 prints I used that settings bank tonight and think it turned out pretty good. By dialing back the capture from 16 bit RAW to 12 bit fine jpegs (with saturation dialed back a smidge for slightly smaller file sizing)I was able to get about 350 picks from those cards and still have a wee bit of memory for the celebration after.
I'll donate the photos to that teacher who probably didn't think before tonight that anything other than some crappy iphone pix would be available. Tonight was the third showing. After the show I was greeted like a conquering hero for "bringing a real camera" lol
Time stands still for no one. And in todays here now gone in 8.9 days world of technology the changes Nikon, Canon, Pop Photo and others either adapt or die.
Panasonic teaming up with Leica a while back was a great idea. Nikon, Canon, and Pentax could learn from that. Nikon for example with their lineup of looking glass items or prescription glasses is what I mean and Pentax could team up with folks who make drones or those upcoming smart helmets.
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Boy I got hit broad side this evening with just how drastic the changes are. My wife and I shoot photos for a local school play group and I had taken about a 2 year break. Frankly just a couple of years ago out of the 200 or so audience members there were several point n shoots and a few DSLR's using tripods and monopods.
Tonight I roled up in the joint with a D7000 clamped to a monopod draped over my shoulder. Nothing unusual I thought. The drama teacher approached my wife and said "oh good somebody is going to take pictures"... my first thought was yeah me and 22 other parents. Nope.
I had the only SLR in the place and zero point n shoots were being used. Heck no tablets either. WOW! I had picked a 55-300 lens figuring no big deal taking more pics of the wifes boy and a few of his friends and had only a pair of 4 gig cards in the slots.
Instead of shooting a couple of dozen pix I needed to shoot hundreds tonight in order to get at least a couple of good ones for each cast members parents, whether they be stars or extras. Luckily I had recently been using the D7000 in some low light scenarios and had tweaked the iso to give me quick shutter speeds while still hiding noise pretty well on my 18" laptop screen. Thinking 8x10 prints I used that settings bank tonight and think it turned out pretty good. By dialing back the capture from 16 bit RAW to 12 bit fine jpegs (with saturation dialed back a smidge for slightly smaller file sizing)I was able to get about 350 picks from those cards and still have a wee bit of memory for the celebration after.
I'll donate the photos to that teacher who probably didn't think before tonight that anything other than some crappy iphone pix would be available. Tonight was the third showing. After the show I was greeted like a conquering hero for "bringing a real camera" lol
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