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Nikon was the second biggest camera manufacturer until recently when Sony ate their market. Even in the early 2010s Nikon was thought as the innovator and tech
by trm42 6y ago
Nikon was the second biggest camera manufacturer until recently when Sony ate their market.
Even in the early 2010s Nikon was thought as the innovator and techically better than Canon but Sony stole that title. Nikon fumbled with the mirrorless market quite spectacularly and nowadays its mirrorless cameras like Z6 and Z7 are basically copies of what Sony published year or two earlier but with quite bad native lens line-up.
The funny thing here is that Nikon outsourced the sensor development to Sony in the 2000s.
- shmageggy 6y agoPlus they compounded their misstep by not publishing the spec for the new Z mount, so third-party manufacturers can't make lenses for it without reverse engineering. So the result is now not only are they behind on body tech, but you can only buy a dozen or so native lenses for Z, meanwhile the are ~150 for Sony. You can guess which system I chose to buy into.