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Less is more
See the trees from the forest and in this case, see the leaves from the tree!
Or risk getting hopelessly lost.
It’s a curious thing, why some Nikon users typically hate other brands such as Canon and especially Sony so much.
Nikon certainly has a much longer history than Sony so many Nikon users are typically long term dyed-in-the-wool fanatics and some of them tend to associate the Nikon brand to their self worth. These people will spread vicious untruths about other brands while obnoxiously defend any less than positive comments about their brand totem, no matter how factual it is. In fact, the Nikon mirrorless Z mount users in gear forums will even turn against Nikon DSLR F mount users, making cannibals look like saints!
Why such extreme cult-like behavior? Psychologically, these people are likely too deep into their brand totem and cannot accept that other brands have caught up or even surpassed their beloved brand with better features, options and performance. To deal with this internal cognitive dissonance, they can only put down the other brands just to assuage their bruised ego, especially when they lacked the means to switch brands.
It’s hence also clear why Nikon Z-ealot influencers don’t express any dislike/falsehoods against Panasonic or Olympus.
The rampant fallacies that these Nikon Z-ealots have perpetuated over the years;
(1) Sony E mount diameter is too small hence it’s not feasible to make fast f1.2 lenses and IBIS effectiveness is limited as the degree the sensor can shift is also limited by the smaller mount. Yet Sony released the FE 50mm f1.2 GM that is smaller, lighter (by 30%) and cheaper than the Z 50mm f1.2 S. The new Sony A7R5 has 8 stops IBIS, which is impossible and fake news if one believes the Nikon Z-ealots.
(2) Sony has terrible color science, Nikon Z-ealots sprouting this falsehood likely either never shoot RAW or have very rudimentary post-processing ability and
(3) Nikon Z lenses are superior because of the large mount. This has been well and truly trashed because the Z lenses mostly tend to be bulkier, heavier and more expensive without really being better!
A recent incident when the mirrorless Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DN ($1,400) was shown to be matching the performance of Nikon’s Z 14-24mm f2.8 S ($2,500). Nikon Z-ealot influencers expressed extreme consternation and simply resorted to reject the test outright and tried to discredit the test even though none of them have ever used the Sigma. Those who shot Sony or Panasonic already knew how good the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DN is as it has been available in E and L mount since 2019. This shows how biased and delusional these Nikon Z-ealot influencers are, they simply chose to think that their brand totem is superior regardless of how good competitive brands are, such biases and delusion really make their overtly enthusiastic opinions of Nikon products utterly suspect.
Nikon mirrorless Z is rather poor value due to their diminishing market share; flic.kr/p/2kUAhdS. It’s little wonder that their Z-ealot influencers are getting increasingly desperate. This fact has been laid bare when Nikon released the rebadged Z 28-75mm f2.8 with a 50% premium based on the Tamron 1st Gen lens and it’s even 33% more expensive than the current Tamron Gen 2 version!
Update
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Nikon continues to lose market share, contrary to the claims of Nikon Z-ealot fanbois obviously afflicted with severe tunnel vision sprouting misinformation about other brands at every opportunity.
Digital camera 2021 global market share as reported by Japanese Techno System Research;
Canon. … 45.8% (-2.1%)
Sony … 27.0% (+4.9%)
Nikon … 11.3% (-2.4%)
Fujifilm. … 5.9% (+0.3%)
Panasonic … 4.4% (±0.0%)
Source: vdata.nikkei.com/newsgraphics/share-ranking/#/year/latest...
The same report last year had Nikon losing -4.9% market share. www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/camera-market-share-canon...
Over a span of 2 years from 2020 and 2021, Nikon lost nearly 40% of their market share (from 18.6% down to 11.3%) in a declining market, no wonder the Nikon influencers are desperate! Bear in mind that Nikon still has a fair bit of DSLR in their portfolio, if we subtract this. their mirrorless market share is even smaller!
Such a small market share also means a much less active secondary market.
As expected, Nikon influencers are frantically passing around their Kool-aid, claiming silly pseudo Finance theory that market share doesn't affect revenue or profit. Problem with a small market share and especially a fast shrinking one is that the important fixed and semi-fixed costs such as R&D can't be spread out to enough units and this is likely why we see releases like the rebadged Nikon Z 28-75mm f2.8 at a +50% extra premium!
In Nikon's case, less is worse and as per Warren Buffett; Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked!
Less is more
See the trees from the forest and in this case, see the leaves from the tree!
Or risk getting hopelessly lost.
It’s a curious thing, why some Nikon users typically hate other brands such as Canon and especially Sony so much.
Nikon certainly has a much longer history than Sony so many Nikon users are typically long term dyed-in-the-wool fanatics and some of them tend to associate the Nikon brand to their self worth. These people will spread vicious untruths about other brands while obnoxiously defend any less than positive comments about their brand totem, no matter how factual it is. In fact, the Nikon mirrorless Z mount users in gear forums will even turn against Nikon DSLR F mount users, making cannibals look like saints!
Why such extreme cult-like behavior? Psychologically, these people are likely too deep into their brand totem and cannot accept that other brands have caught up or even surpassed their beloved brand with better features, options and performance. To deal with this internal cognitive dissonance, they can only put down the other brands just to assuage their bruised ego, especially when they lacked the means to switch brands.
It’s hence also clear why Nikon Z-ealot influencers don’t express any dislike/falsehoods against Panasonic or Olympus.
The rampant fallacies that these Nikon Z-ealots have perpetuated over the years;
(1) Sony E mount diameter is too small hence it’s not feasible to make fast f1.2 lenses and IBIS effectiveness is limited as the degree the sensor can shift is also limited by the smaller mount. Yet Sony released the FE 50mm f1.2 GM that is smaller, lighter (by 30%) and cheaper than the Z 50mm f1.2 S. The new Sony A7R5 has 8 stops IBIS, which is impossible and fake news if one believes the Nikon Z-ealots.
(2) Sony has terrible color science, Nikon Z-ealots sprouting this falsehood likely either never shoot RAW or have very rudimentary post-processing ability and
(3) Nikon Z lenses are superior because of the large mount. This has been well and truly trashed because the Z lenses mostly tend to be bulkier, heavier and more expensive without really being better!
A recent incident when the mirrorless Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DN ($1,400) was shown to be matching the performance of Nikon’s Z 14-24mm f2.8 S ($2,500). Nikon Z-ealot influencers expressed extreme consternation and simply resorted to reject the test outright and tried to discredit the test even though none of them have ever used the Sigma. Those who shot Sony or Panasonic already knew how good the Sigma 14-24mm f2.8 DN is as it has been available in E and L mount since 2019. This shows how biased and delusional these Nikon Z-ealot influencers are, they simply chose to think that their brand totem is superior regardless of how good competitive brands are, such biases and delusion really make their overtly enthusiastic opinions of Nikon products utterly suspect.
Nikon mirrorless Z is rather poor value due to their diminishing market share; flic.kr/p/2kUAhdS. It’s little wonder that their Z-ealot influencers are getting increasingly desperate. This fact has been laid bare when Nikon released the rebadged Z 28-75mm f2.8 with a 50% premium based on the Tamron 1st Gen lens and it’s even 33% more expensive than the current Tamron Gen 2 version!
Update
======
Nikon continues to lose market share, contrary to the claims of Nikon Z-ealot fanbois obviously afflicted with severe tunnel vision sprouting misinformation about other brands at every opportunity.
Digital camera 2021 global market share as reported by Japanese Techno System Research;
Canon. … 45.8% (-2.1%)
Sony … 27.0% (+4.9%)
Nikon … 11.3% (-2.4%)
Fujifilm. … 5.9% (+0.3%)
Panasonic … 4.4% (±0.0%)
Source: vdata.nikkei.com/newsgraphics/share-ranking/#/year/latest...
The same report last year had Nikon losing -4.9% market share. www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/camera-market-share-canon...
Over a span of 2 years from 2020 and 2021, Nikon lost nearly 40% of their market share (from 18.6% down to 11.3%) in a declining market, no wonder the Nikon influencers are desperate! Bear in mind that Nikon still has a fair bit of DSLR in their portfolio, if we subtract this. their mirrorless market share is even smaller!
Such a small market share also means a much less active secondary market.
As expected, Nikon influencers are frantically passing around their Kool-aid, claiming silly pseudo Finance theory that market share doesn't affect revenue or profit. Problem with a small market share and especially a fast shrinking one is that the important fixed and semi-fixed costs such as R&D can't be spread out to enough units and this is likely why we see releases like the rebadged Nikon Z 28-75mm f2.8 at a +50% extra premium!
In Nikon's case, less is worse and as per Warren Buffett; Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked!