Follow my live Panasonic GH3 and Canon 6D updates from Photokina today

[Andrew Reid]

I will be travelling to Cologne in the morning for Photokina 2012.

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[tungah]

Andrew, when I try to follow you on twitter, I get this message: You have been blocked from following this account at the request of the user.
So I guess no twitter updates for me... :/
Btw, my twitter account is @tunggah if you'd care to follow me so I could try to follow you back...
Thanks!

[TC]

6D is official. Anyone find it suspicious that, after all these years, both Canon and Nikon release a budget full frame model within a few weeks of each other?

[moebius22]

The D600 looks pretty compelling right about now.

http://***URL removed***/products/canon/slrs/canon_eos6d

[Zach]

[quote name='TC' timestamp='1347852461' post='18290']
6D is official. Anyone find it suspicious that, after all these years, both Canon and Nikon release a budget full frame model within a few weeks of each other?
[/quote]

what exactly would be suspicious about it?

[TC]

[quote name='Zach' timestamp='1347853648' post='18292']
what exactly would be suspicious about it?
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Just feels like they *might* be colluding regarding their model release schedule.

[Chrad]

Probably just run of the mill mild corporate espionage. There's no way that in this day and age Canon and Nikon would be able to hide such major projects from each other.

[Simco123]

China/Japan spat over island threatens Panasonic and other Japanese companies
[url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19620114"]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19620114[/url]

Worst still is the potential rare earth shipment to Japan or elsewhere for Japanese companies being suspended.

[Max]

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[*][color=#333333][font=Helvetica, Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif][size=3]take back your card.[/size][/font][/color]
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[Andrew Reid]

[quote name='Zach' timestamp='1347853648' post='18292']
what exactly would be suspicious about it?
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Canon and Nikon are supposed to be separate companies. Everyone who knows about their cameras as they are being planned or developed are under an NDA. As far as I know, a company doesn't make a massive product decision based on rumours or whispers so if a Nikon guy came to a Canon guy in a Tokyo pub and said "hey we're making a cut price full frame DSLR!" I don't think Canon would suddenly create a 6D.

But it could just be a coincidence. They are matching each other at every step. It seems the D800 caught Canon unawares in the high megapixel territories - they don't have an answer to that yet.

[Andrew Reid]

[quote name='Chrad' timestamp='1347860864' post='18295']
Probably just run of the mill mild corporate espionage. There's no way that in this day and age Canon and Nikon would be able to hide such major projects from each other.
[/quote]

If it is 'mild' espionage in terms of solid evidence that one of the companies is producing a certain kind of product, then yes.

[nigelbb]

I suspect that Nikon & Canon just got the same answers from the extensive marketing research & focus groups that these vast corporations use to find out what consumers really want.

[TC]

Yeah, coincidence it may well be. In any case, they are no longer each other's biggest threat. Sony is. And with the GH3, they should be very worried about Panasonic too.

[Andrew Reid]

[quote name='nigelbb' timestamp='1347870717' post='18304']
I suspect that Nikon & Canon just got the same answers from the extensive marketing research & focus groups that these vast corporations use to find out what consumers really want.
[/quote]

Or hire a Steve Jobs. Much better.

[zephyrnoid]

I know about the upconing battery pack. Great. BUT is there any idea of a DC IN jack for AC/DC power?
It's hard to believe Panasonic has come this far in video, without providing access to external power.
I mean, with unlimited video capture, I'd hate to be chaning battery packs or grips in the middle of a job.