If they are coming out with a 1D MkIII for only $4500 with digic 3 they are probably trying to come up with something that doesn't make it unnecessary to buy that.
There is on official announcement because Canon must be aware that Sony is eventually going to do to them what they did to Nintendo and Sega.
Just watch. Bye bye Canon and Nikon too. For the prosumer market anyway.
Canon and Nikon have about 80% of the DSLR market share. They have owned that market forever; Sony isn't about to take that away, not with crappy sensors and lack of convincing offerings. The A100 is a total joke.
Have you any idea how skint Sony is? I doubt whether they have the resources to take on Canon who are super efficient. Canon are super canny and to be fair, there is a good chance that they are only playing with Nikon. The research and development budget at Canon almost certainly dwarfs the one available to Nikon and I feel, therefore that Nikon will never catch Canon. It is in Canon's interest to have some competition, but I do not think that it is from Sony. Sony need Playstation 3 and Blu Ray to be successful so desperately, that they will die otherwise. Samsung and Matsushita are in a much stronger position than Sony.
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If they are coming out with a 1D MkIII for only $4500 with digic 3 they are probably trying to come up with something that doesn't make it unnecessary to buy that.
There is on official announcement because Canon must be aware that Sony is eventually going to do to them what they did to Nintendo and Sega.
Just watch. Bye bye Canon and Nikon too. For the prosumer market anyway.
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Canon and Nikon have about 80% of the DSLR market share. They have owned that market forever; Sony isn't about to take that away, not with crappy sensors and lack of convincing offerings. The A100 is a total joke.
Have you any idea how skint Sony is? I doubt whether they have the resources to take on Canon who are super efficient. Canon are super canny and to be fair, there is a good chance that they are only playing with Nikon. The research and development budget at Canon almost certainly dwarfs the one available to Nikon and I feel, therefore that Nikon will never catch Canon. It is in Canon's interest to have some competition, but I do not think that it is from Sony. Sony need Playstation 3 and Blu Ray to be successful so desperately, that they will die otherwise. Samsung and Matsushita are in a much stronger position than Sony.