Canon 1DX Mark II and Canon 5D Mark IV

January 30th, 2015

There've been rumors about an impending Canon 1DX Mark II and Canon 5D Mark IV for awhile now, but today's firmware release for the 1DX and 5D Mark III just doused those hopes and pushed them down the timeline for 1-2 years. I love Canon's policy of getting the hardware right first time around and upping the camera's usefulness through firmware upgrades, which are at times quite massive.

Nikon almost never does this, the firmware releases are bug fixes or adaptations for new lenses. They rather put out a new camera, which saturates a market unable to absorb the number of new expensive bodies entering it. I'm talking about the recent D800/D810 debacle, where the D800 held for little more than an year. The result is massive value depreciation of the to-be-replaced camera which frankly pisses me off.

Message to Nikon: Stick to a 3+-year product release cycle and concentrate on firmware enhancements of the existing line-up. We'll love you for it!

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