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By Andrew Reid · Posted
Allison Johnson (ex-DPReview) has written this for the Verge... https://www.theverge.com/tech/649145/canon-powershot-g7x-iii-tiktok-how-to-buy Suppose you are an alien. You've grown up with a smartphone all your life, never touched a DSLR or mirrorless camera before and had no desire to as they were all £5000 and too big. Then you're bombarded by attractive people in beautiful places taking photos with a flash. Canon is the default choice as the Powershot series have always had the highest sales, some might say nicest colour and definitely the most brand recognition. The G10 is old but popular with CCD lovers and Gen Z, but the G7 X II takes it too a new level - modern 1" sensor, proper video, flip out screen and RAW. And importantly it was always a lot smaller than a Fuji X100 and has a zoom. So for the alien, it becomes the best camera choice bar none. I had the G7 X II and the III but didn't stick with 'em. Of course we know there are far better choices for compacts and flash photography. The Sony RX1, the Fuji X-T30, Panasonic LX100 and numerous others. Yet the appeal of the G7 X series stays purely due to the massive traction it's gained in explainer videos on TikTok from really attractive influencers. There must be a lesson somewhere here for the camera manufacturers. Gerald No-shots doesn't sell cameras. Models do. -
By Andrew Reid · Posted
I don't see how Blackmagic or anyone else can trust the US enough to make decisions a few months from now. Trump's handling of tariffs where they come on and off at random intervals, means the required level of stability in economics and tax just isn't there for companies like Blackmagic to be making major decisions like relocating production. Added to that the Trump government's blatant undermining of the law, undermining judges, illegal deportations and arrest of European tourists at the border, just shows that the USA is now officially a lawless country or on the way to being one. Investors hate chaos. Lawless behaviour from the government is a recipe for total chaos and if I were Blackmagic or any other camera company right now I wouldn't be waiting a few months to see how it all pans out, I'd be waiting for 5 years and a new government. Which means the US is probably going to have a recession and a massive downturn in foreign investment. -
By Andrew Reid · Posted
I agree it's all bonkers, added to which the fact that America leads the entire world in services, especially tech and financial services, which more than make up any so-called trade deficit in terms of physical goods production, and a lot of these services are highly subsidised by cheap manufacturing of products abroad. Take the iPhone for example. The hardware is imported, but the services are an export to the entire world, in terms of the App Store, iCloud, Apple Studios and so on. So if the hardware is no longer to be made affordably thanks to Chinese wages and factories the size of cities, the revenue goes down for ALL of Apple's services. The US is 90% a services economy, so it stands to lose an incredible amount of money and high quality jobs if such products are undermined. Apple is only one example, there's also Microsoft, Google, Amazon who have highly profitable service exports built off the back of Chinese made hardware. And the geo-political side of this is very dangerous for the US. Europe especially and the rest of the world have massive leverage over US services, if they wanted to boot out VISA, Mastercard, PayPal, eBay, Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft or tax their digital services at 25%, that would destroy the US economy and there would be massive unemployment. Trump doesn't know his arse from his elbow and it's why his businesses all failed. -
By eatstoomuchjam · Posted
This is all one of the most boggling parts of the announced tariffs. If the goal is to onshore manufacturing, tariffs should be on completed products, not on subassemblies or raw stuff. I don't remember if I mentioned it here before, but this whole thing even had Mr. Beast (of all people!) making a salient point. The tariffs will lead to him offshoring more of his chocolate bar production. He said that right now, he has factories in the US and Peru making his bars. There's almost no part of the US capable of commercial cacao production (Hawaii only, and they don't make enough). Since the US factory makes bars for export, the tariffs on cacao import will drive up the price of the bars from his US factory, making them less competitive abroad. Moving them to Peru means that the raw goods prices will remain tariff-free. It's absolutely bonkers to think that saying "Pay 10% extra for a foreign-made product made with cheaper labor" and "Pay 10% extra + extra labor costs for a domestic-made product" somehow results in companies screaming "Let's on-shore that stuff!" I mean, maybe for the materials that can be domestically-sourced like iron, that could be a viable strategy... but for anything that we don't build here, the only possible end result can be higher prices and production remains where it is (or shifts to a lower-tariff country). -
It's true, on it's own I think it's a fine camera and I've enjoyed it so far, but it is not a true replacement for the S1R, That camera felt much more elevated and bar non, one of my favourite so far!
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