Biggest camera fail of past couple years: The contestants

[RichA]

Nikon:

D7000 - focus issues, dirt on sensor issues
D600 - major dirt on sensor issues
D800/E - focus issues
V1 - sensor too small to compete in its class.

Pentax:

K-01: Design that turned people off.
Q: Sensor too small for an interchangeable lens camera.

Canon:

M: Camera too expensive for a non-EVF body. Their lack-luster, last-
to-the-party "commitment" to mirrorless. But I hear they are about to
redeem themselves on this.
Their entire line of low to mid-end, cookie-cutter DSLRs. Time to
retire the Rebels.

Olympus:

E-P5: At $1000 sugg. retail, POINTLESS as a long as the E-5M exists.

Panasonic:

G5: Sensor too old.

Samsung:

All: Cannot market, failed to catch on despite having reasonable
cameras.

Ricoh:

GXR: Crazy design. Big discounts to get rid of them.

Sony:

All the fixed mirror bodies: 1/2 stop slower on the noisiest
implementation of Sony's own sensor of all companies using it.
RX1: WAY too expensive for a fixed-lens camera and for what it
offers.

Leica:

No failures.

Sigma:

DP1-3: Merrill. $1000 each and you need to buy THREE of them to get
three focal lengths.
Interchangeable lenses, SIGMA!

Fuji:

X100S/X20: Still suffering from slow focusing.

[Robert Coe]

On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:14:03 -0700 (PDT), RichA <***@gmail.com> wrote:
: Canon:
:
: M: Camera too expensive for a non-EVF body. Their lack-luster, last-
: to-the-party "commitment" to mirrorless. But I hear they are about to
: redeem themselves on this.

Really? The only one I've heard predict that is me, and my predictions have
fallen on deaf ears. (Justifiably, I suppose, since I have no inside
information and am just guessing.)

: Their entire line of low to mid-end, cookie-cutter DSLRs. Time to
: retire the Rebels.

They're successful because they take good pictures and some people really like
them. My wife, for example, loves her T2i because of its light weight. She
won't hear of replacing it with, say, a 7D because the latter is considerably
heavier.

Bob

[PeterN]

Post by Robert Coe
: M: Camera too expensive for a non-EVF body. Their lack-luster, last-
: to-the-party "commitment" to mirrorless. But I hear they are about to
: redeem themselves on this.
Really? The only one I've heard predict that is me, and my predictions have
fallen on deaf ears. (Justifiably, I suppose, since I have no inside
information and am just guessing.)
: Their entire line of low to mid-end, cookie-cutter DSLRs. Time to
: retire the Rebels.
They're successful because they take good pictures and some people really like
them. My wife, for example, loves her T2i because of its light weight. She
won't hear of replacing it with, say, a 7D because the latter is considerably
heavier.

I can relate to that. My next camera will most likely be much lighter.
One of my friends carries a lot of equipment. Problem is that after a
short walk, he is too tired from carrying the gear around, that he has
to sit down.

[RichA]

Post by PeterN

: M:  Camera too expensive for a non-EVF body. Their lack-luster, last-
: to-the-party "commitment" to mirrorless.  But I hear they are about to
: redeem themselves on this.
Really? The only one I've heard predict that is me, and my predictions have
fallen on deaf ears. (Justifiably, I suppose, since I have no inside
information and am just guessing.)
: Their entire line of low to mid-end, cookie-cutter DSLRs.  Time to
: retire the Rebels.
They're successful because they take good pictures and some people really like
them. My wife, for example, loves her T2i because of its light weight. She
won't hear of replacing it with, say, a 7D because the latter is considerably
heavier.

I can relate to that. My next camera will most likely be much lighter.
One of my friends carries a lot of equipment. Problem is that after a
short walk, he is too tired from carrying the gear around, that he has
to sit down.
--
PeterN

What I found was I had no problems toting around a big Nikon DSLR and
large zoom lens...until I started using something much lighter. Then,
going back to the Nikon, you notice it.
I hang a camera off my shoulder and heavier cameras tend to stay put
better though.

[PeterN]

Post by Robert Coe
: M: Camera too expensive for a non-EVF body. Their lack-luster, last-
: to-the-party "commitment" to mirrorless. But I hear they are about to
: redeem themselves on this.
Really? The only one I've heard predict that is me, and my predictions have
fallen on deaf ears. (Justifiably, I suppose, since I have no inside
information and am just guessing.)
: Their entire line of low to mid-end, cookie-cutter DSLRs. Time to
: retire the Rebels.
They're successful because they take good pictures and some people really like
them. My wife, for example, loves her T2i because of its light weight. She
won't hear of replacing it with, say, a 7D because the latter is considerably
heavier.

A recent conversation with a person who knows, has led me to the
conclusion that your predictions have not fallen on deaf ears. There are
some serious engineering issues involved.

[Bowser]

Post by RichA
No failures.

Uh, OK. I guess the M8 is too far back. It was Leica's first IR
camera. And don't forget the latest FF "budget" model, with a sensor
that scoreslower than the GH3's sensor.