Canon 5D MKIV officially announced.

I've been a Nikon shooter since I was a kid, although I also had Canon systems even way back then (the 70s - I even had one of the AE-1s in the country!). I've thought since the introduction of the 5D MKII that Nikon could have buried Canon if they would have seriously gone for the video DSLR, then the dedicated video camera route. Nikon has great color science, good engineering and I like Nikon glass just as much as my Canon glass. Imagine a Nikon competitor to the EOS cinema line, could have been pretty cool and would have added another player to the Sony/Canon/BMD/Arri/Panasonic ranks. But I guess that they chose to ignore video, at their peril, and they have apparently chose to ignore mirrorless, to their peril. If you look at the current body line up, it's a convoluted mess. No innovation, they are playing follow the leader while meanwhile, the market is quickly evolving and changing underneath their feet. They had the resources to build their own sensors but instead chose to rely on Sony and it could be a fact that Sony made NOT entering the video market a condition of selling them sensors. It's a shame, I really like Nikon products and have been using them for more than 40 years. Oh well, Canon EOS C cameras are my video tools now and I am strongly thinking about pulling the trigger on a Fuji XT2 also, just to have something small, light and 4k for gimbal /b-camera usage. Things change and those who refuse to change along with them will perish.
 
puredrifting said:
I've been a Nikon shooter since I was a kid, although I also had Canon systems even way back then (the 70s - I even had one of the AE-1s in the country!). I've thought since the introduction of the 5D MKII that Nikon could have buried Canon if they would have seriously gone for the video DSLR, then the dedicated video camera route. Nikon has great color science, good engineering and I like Nikon glass just as much as my Canon glass. Imagine a Nikon competitor to the EOS cinema line, could have been pretty cool and would have added another player to the Sony/Canon/BMD/Arri/Panasonic ranks. But I guess that they chose to ignore video, at their peril, and they have apparently chose to ignore mirrorless, to their peril. If you look at the current body line up, it's a convoluted mess. No innovation, they are playing follow the leader while meanwhile, the market is quickly evolving and changing underneath their feet. They had the resources to build their own sensors but instead chose to rely on Sony and it could be a fact that Sony made NOT entering the video market a condition of selling them sensors. It's a shame, I really like Nikon products and have been using them for more than 40 years. Oh well, Canon EOS C cameras are my video tools now and I am strongly thinking about pulling the trigger on a Fuji XT2 also, just to have something small, light and 4k for gimbal /b-camera usage. Things change and those who refuse to change along with them will perish.
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along with my canon system I've had & have a bunch of nikon DSLR's as well. I've wondered why nikon didn't go for video as well in the last few years. the thing with them is they have nothing to cannabilize since they are only DSLR's. what you say about sony maybe not letting them makes sense. i think the D2h was their own sensor which i owned and that was not a good sensor! argh! great body though. i owned the original Fuji S1 Pro and later the S3 Pro and will way that their color vibe is the "best". even more appealing that canon's IMO and thats hard to beat. its very interesting to see that they are in the video /4k game now. the JPEG's that came out of the S3 pro were better than all of the other companies RAW files. they were so ahead of their time on IQ / sensor performance. they were held back by only getting the cr$ppy bodies from nikon though but besides that their IQ was insanely good but eventually couldn't compete with the lame bodies.

david
 
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