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Canon has a history of perplexing blunders that indicate they don't know the needs of some important target audiences very well.

Another example is their issuance of one video-centric (or at least "hybrid") camera after another that's crippled by an insulting and nearly-useless micro-HDMI port, while everyone else offers full-sized HDMI.

I have a decent investment in Canon lenses; but after waiting and waiting for Canon to pull its head out of its ass and compete (especially in terms of video capability), I think I have to jump ship.

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They know exactly what is needed, but will only provide big updates, once the competition catches up or they think it would otherwise make their market share endangered. Like when they released the 5d mark ii with that awesome sensor.

Catches up? Canon is perceived as a laggard at this point. Sony, Panasonic, and even Nikon are more vital than Canon today.

They have been market leaders for over 20 years...

If you're going with that laurel, you can say way more than 20 years.

Well, they put a full-size HDMI port on the R5 mk. II if that is all you are worried about.

That's not all. But it's long overdue.

Canon is great at market segmentation, and would rather get you to buy a great video camera for video needs than make a great camera that would barely meet your needs for video.

It's like Apple wanting you to buy a phone, tablet, and watch.

Sony makes cameras that do both quite well. With Nikon's acquisition of Red, they may also up their video game.

Canon is clinging to laurels that are long gone. And this is coming from a longtime Canon shooter who likes their still-image quality. They need an FX3 killer, pronto.

Sony is great at two things, marketing and sensor development. Their marketing is so great that everyone assumes they have 90% market share, where the reality is that Canon has approximately doubly Sony's market share.

Sony makes top notch sensors and fairly mediocre cameras, and sensor development is something that has been leapfrogged multiple times in history.

Nikon is the one that has a decent chance of dethroning Canon, unless canon ups their RF lens game.

I have certainly heard knocks against Sony cameras' reliability.

I don't assume anything about their market share; just the specs they currently offer. I wish Canon were more competitive for video shooters.

We'll see what happens with Nikon & Red.

> that's crippled by an insulting and nearly-useless micro-HDMI port

:P Feels like a page out of the Apple playbook…

“There’s a dongle for that”

https://a.co/d/ez3xF2i

Ha! But the problem isn't physical incompatibility. It's that micro-HDMI is flimsy garbage that will be loose and unusable by the end of its fifth use. Yep, fifth. That's my estimate (from experience) and I think it would hold up empirically.

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