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Nov 1, 2018 23:09:26   #
rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
 
BebuLamar wrote:
Navywife66 said that. She said if Tony is right then everyone with the M4/3 would sell all their equipment.


Why would people do that. Even if the format fades, the cameras will continue to work. All this Doom and Gloom stuff is nonsense. Technology will evolve as it always has and nothing Tony Northrup or UHH posters say will change that.
I enjoy watching the Northrup's, I find them occasionally informative and usually always entertaining but, when Tony goes off on his little tangents, making fun of and putting down some of the earlier camera technologies, it just shows his elitist ignorance. One time he went off on a tangent about the LCD screens Canon uses on the top of camera bodies. He compared them to an early LCD watch. Canon apparently uses those LCD displays because they work and do their job quite well. Funny thing though, I look at the upper display on my D500 and what does it look like?! Just like the one on my 5D IV. I guess the engineers at Canon and Nikon aren't concerned about Tony's opinion.

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Nov 1, 2018 23:20:56   #
Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.
 
jburlinson wrote:
In a recent video, youtube guru Tony Northrup has pretty much categorically declared the MFT format all but dead. He gives it about 2 years on life support and then --- kaput. Here's the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjXSnNMZ0PU

Plus, he definitively states that compact cameras are also obsolete, victims of the smartphone.

In the comments section attached to the video, Tony also stated that he and wife Chelsea will no longer be recommending that people buy DSLR's, now that the Sony A7Riii has, in his opinion, trumped the Nikon D850.

So, soon (within the next couple of years) the camera buyer will have basically two choices: smartphone or mirrorless full frame, with maybe a little niche for mirrorless APS-C.

What do you think?
In a recent video, youtube guru Tony Northrup has ... (show quote)


I think the idea that "within the next couple of years" the only camera choices will be smartphones or mirrorless is ridiculous.

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Nov 1, 2018 23:31:23   #
Navywife66 Loc: NC
 
rmorrison1116 wrote:
Why would people do that. Even if the format fades, the cameras will continue to work. All this Doom and Gloom stuff is nonsense. Technology will evolve as it always has and nothing Tony Northrup or UHH posters say will change that.
I enjoy watching the Northrup's, I find them occasionally informative and usually always entertaining but, when Tony goes off on his little tangents, making fun of and putting down some of the earlier camera technologies, it just shows his elitist ignorance. One time he went off on a tangent about the LCD screens Canon uses on the top of camera bodies. He compared them to an early LCD watch. Canon apparently uses those LCD displays because they work and do their job quite well. Funny thing though, I look at the upper display on my D500 and what does it look like?! Just like the one on my 5D IV. I guess the engineers at Canon and Nikon aren't concerned about Tony's opinion.
Why would people do that. Even if the format fades... (show quote)


Again, those were NOT my words. Please re-read what I wrote in the post beingn it simply implies a scenario which btw is ludicrous and why I said “Imagine”...

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Nov 1, 2018 23:39:22   #
burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC
 
jburlinson wrote:
In a recent video, youtube guru Tony Northrup has pretty much categorically declared the MFT format all but dead. He gives it about 2 years on life support and then --- kaput. Here's the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjXSnNMZ0PU

Plus, he definitively states that compact cameras are also obsolete, victims of the smartphone.

In the comments section attached to the video, Tony also stated that he and wife Chelsea will no longer be recommending that people buy DSLR's, now that the Sony A7Riii has, in his opinion, trumped the Nikon D850.

So, soon (within the next couple of years) the camera buyer will have basically two choices: smartphone or mirrorless full frame, with maybe a little niche for mirrorless APS-C.

What do you think?
In a recent video, youtube guru Tony Northrup has ... (show quote)


I usually like the Northrup commentaries. But this time, I wish he’d just shut up.

Let it play out. I have no interest in going back to large, expensive, heavy full frame lenses. Panasonic has enough video users for the GH series, that it will probably be around a while.

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Nov 1, 2018 23:41:58   #
burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC
 
tdekany wrote:
Tony shoots his videos with gh5s, landscape with an Olympus m1 mark2.

Interestingly, he didn’t predict Samsung going out of business.

What he is, is a savvy businessman. He knows what to say to get traffic to his site.

I can’t wait to hear what he is going to say about the new Olympus flagship camera coming out early next year.

M4/3 isn’t going anywhere. Those lenses will carry m4/3 way into the future. There are more than enough people out there who prefer to carry a lighter system.

Same bs was said about the small 35mm format in the beginning wasn’t it?

What 1 person thinks is irrelevant.
Tony shoots his videos with gh5s, landscape with a... (show quote)



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Nov 1, 2018 23:43:43   #
Navywife66 Loc: NC
 
Navywife66 wrote:
Again, those were NOT my words. Please re-read what I wrote in the post being it simply “implies” a scenario which btw is ludicrous and why I said “Imagine”...

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Nov 1, 2018 23:44:18   #
burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC
 
BebuLamar wrote:
Now I am bothered by the fact that people have to sell their cameras if the manufacturers don't make them any more why? Let assume that Tony is right and there will be no more new M4/3 cameras or lenses introduced then do you have to get rid of the ones you're already have?


No. If that happens, I’ll buy a pot load of used lenses!

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Nov 1, 2018 23:45:50   #
burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC
 
BebuLamar wrote:
We don't know for sure but you missed my point. My point is that assuming they don't make the M4/3 any more why do we have to get rid of our existing cameras?


I still have five really great film cameras. I don’t use them, but...

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Nov 2, 2018 00:38:07   #
JD750 Loc: SoCal
 
burkphoto wrote:
I still have five really great film cameras. I don’t use them, but...


I use mine.

What do you have? Anything good you want to sell cheap?

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Nov 2, 2018 00:44:42   #
JD750 Loc: SoCal
 
jburlinson wrote:
..<snip> What do you think?


I think Tony makes money saying what he believes. But ...

“Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future”. -Yoda

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Nov 2, 2018 01:51:30   #
rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
 
Navywife66 wrote:
Again, those were NOT my words. Please re-read what I wrote in the post beingn it simply implies a scenario which btw is ludicrous and why I said “Imagine”...


My sincerest apologies, I actually responded to the wrong response. I totally understand those are not your words and as a fairly long time viewer on the Northrup's videos, I've heard Tony say some pretty ludicrous things. The only reason I still watch them, when I get a chance, is because they are entertaining.

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Nov 2, 2018 01:59:02   #
rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
 
JD750 wrote:
I think Tony makes money saying what he believes. But ...

“Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future”. -Yoda


Sometimes I wonder about that. Tony is an intelligent person and a good technical author. Some times he editorializes a bit too much and sometimes his dart hits the wall. I believe he occasionally comments on things he doesn't know enough about or interjects too much of his own personal beliefs when they are for the most part, irrelevant.

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Nov 2, 2018 02:03:13   #
rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
 
rmalarz wrote:
Tony Northrup a guru?

If Tony Northrup told me what time it was, I'd pray I had a watch so I could check for myself.
--Bob


I don't believe he's quite that bad but then I personally pay no mind to his predictions.

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Nov 2, 2018 02:12:27   #
rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
 
BebuLamar wrote:
We don't know for sure but you missed my point. My point is that assuming they don't make the M4/3 any more why do we have to get rid of our existing cameras?


Also my point. Same with the MILC fanboys and their rhetoric about flapping and slapping mirrors. I guess they never saw the mirror mechanism in an EOS 5DS/ 5DSr. Anyway, I still occasionally shoot with my EOS 20D, an antique by today's standards, and it works just fine.

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Nov 2, 2018 02:14:18   #
rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
 
BebuLamar wrote:
Navywife66 said that. She said if Tony is right then everyone with the M4/3 would sell all their equipment.


This has probably already been corrected but I'm pretty sure she said, he said, as in Tony.

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