ooh touched a nerve. bias here we are again, or no one reads the whole post, but whatev's. Anyway, Canon and Nikon offer 3 models for a given sensor size. The branded rebel model, obviously the higher number is the newer model. Straight forward. What on earth is the basic m4/3 model? Is the buyer supposed to look at the alphabet soup or the numbers, or the price? It's a confusing mess not one of those 3 criterions will tell a consumer which model/make they are buying. 30+ camera's in 5 years around 1 sensor size, and primarily one market segment. That is insane.
It's easy to see the mid tier models with Canon/Nikon, x0/x000, models, once again, higher number newer model easy peasy relatively basic (Nikon is a little wonky here, I'll give them that but still relatively simple). m4/3, what's the mid tier model in that alphabet soup.
Pro models, consumer is likely aware of what they are buying no matter the system you could call them Charlie if you wanted to. Stupidly, they are generally the best named systems in all of the systems we're talking about. GH1,2,3, EM1, or was it EM10, EM5 came before EM1, 2 years ago, EM10 is the newest right? wait... what?
Any hurdle of getting that camera into a new users hand is bad for all of us. The more hurdles the average consumers have to picking up the camera's, equal less people with camera's the more likely the system goes away or we get less of a product than what we could have. Just because you love the set up, doesn't mean you have to defend it to the death when they have clear problems that are just self inflicted.
You can even read in this thread a few sentiments of, I would have bought that when but if I waited a few months I could get it cheaper or the new one comes out... that's bad.
It's easy to see the mid tier models with Canon/Nikon, x0/x000, models, once again, higher number newer model easy peasy relatively basic (Nikon is a little wonky here, I'll give them that but still relatively simple). m4/3, what's the mid tier model in that alphabet soup.
Pro models, consumer is likely aware of what they are buying no matter the system you could call them Charlie if you wanted to. Stupidly, they are generally the best named systems in all of the systems we're talking about. GH1,2,3, EM1, or was it EM10, EM5 came before EM1, 2 years ago, EM10 is the newest right? wait... what?
Any hurdle of getting that camera into a new users hand is bad for all of us. The more hurdles the average consumers have to picking up the camera's, equal less people with camera's the more likely the system goes away or we get less of a product than what we could have. Just because you love the set up, doesn't mean you have to defend it to the death when they have clear problems that are just self inflicted.
You can even read in this thread a few sentiments of, I would have bought that when but if I waited a few months I could get it cheaper or the new one comes out... that's bad.
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