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What to expect from an update?
by Siegfried on Wed 21 Oct - 22:40:47
Few days back I started a discussion on DPR saying that I believe in a highly competitive market it could be a great benefit for the manufacturer who are willing....to offer its clients real upgrades over the product life cycle in the form of firmware upgrades.
Panasonic has started this concept I believe with their SLR, the L10, then the LX3 and currently the G1 and the GH1. Today I read they published a new upgrade with sigificant improvements plus additional functions.
In contrary many other today launch new models or "upgrades" within months and then totally ignore the existing owner.
Olympus for example added new functions to their new cams but kept the same software. That means a customer with a older product can still use the upgraded version but with only part of the ful functionality. Its messy to say the least plus one wonder if the older pictures will be edited correctly at all..... To me that's asking owners to shop arround...
What do you think?
Siegfried
Panasonic has started this concept I believe with their SLR, the L10, then the LX3 and currently the G1 and the GH1. Today I read they published a new upgrade with sigificant improvements plus additional functions.
In contrary many other today launch new models or "upgrades" within months and then totally ignore the existing owner.
Olympus for example added new functions to their new cams but kept the same software. That means a customer with a older product can still use the upgraded version but with only part of the ful functionality. Its messy to say the least plus one wonder if the older pictures will be edited correctly at all..... To me that's asking owners to shop arround...
What do you think?
Siegfried
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Re: What to expect from an update?
by Simon.fairclough on Thu 22 Oct - 12:31:12
I think that Camera makers only really care about selling more units these days.
They have discovered with digital that they can sell us a camera every two years instead of every ten years. I think that firmware updates are part of this conspiracy as the makers are obviously not making sure the camera works properly in the first place. Maybe Panasonic are different as I don't know not ever owning a Panny DSLR, but Nikon firmware is just to put stuff right.
Also why no RAW format that works with everything Adobe DNG is great why can't they all just use that?
The sad thing is greed is not good any more. The constant arms race of mega-pixels and high ISO are just not exciting me enough to buy in to it every time Nikon/Canon say jump. Its a bit cruel for us keen photogs that have limited budgets for gear, to have up-grades every 18months. Still I don't have to think about MP anymore because I don't care and it will just be on the next cam anyway high ISO is a lure but I am happy just now, I do see a change when it hits 1,638,400 iso. So in five years time.
I feel I went a bit off topic but you know what I mean.
Oh and BTW A beta release of Adobe Lightroom 3 is now available as a free download to anyone on both Macintosh and Windows platforms.
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads
They have discovered with digital that they can sell us a camera every two years instead of every ten years. I think that firmware updates are part of this conspiracy as the makers are obviously not making sure the camera works properly in the first place. Maybe Panasonic are different as I don't know not ever owning a Panny DSLR, but Nikon firmware is just to put stuff right.
Also why no RAW format that works with everything Adobe DNG is great why can't they all just use that?
The sad thing is greed is not good any more. The constant arms race of mega-pixels and high ISO are just not exciting me enough to buy in to it every time Nikon/Canon say jump. Its a bit cruel for us keen photogs that have limited budgets for gear, to have up-grades every 18months. Still I don't have to think about MP anymore because I don't care and it will just be on the next cam anyway high ISO is a lure but I am happy just now, I do see a change when it hits 1,638,400 iso. So in five years time.
I feel I went a bit off topic but you know what I mean.
Oh and BTW A beta release of Adobe Lightroom 3 is now available as a free download to anyone on both Macintosh and Windows platforms.
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads
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