Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai. Today I'm gonna do a 2019 guesstimation of the camera
industry. Things that will happen in 2019 with cameras.. camera manufacturers..
whatever. Kind of a continuation of the 2018 awards video that was basically a
joke, but I was serious at the same time. So let's get started.
2018 was the year of gigantic lenses for full-frame mirrorless. I think 2019 we'll
start to see smaller lenses for the full-frame mirrorless cameras. There is
definitely an improvement with some technology. The fresnel lenses. The
fresnel technology. Kind of a nanotube whatever... it's.... There are a few articles
around about it. But basically Nikon has their PF lenses. We'll see more of
those. I think Sony with their 400 millimeter is pretty compact for what it
is. And their 24 as well. Basically we will just see smaller lenses hopefully in
2019. I do think there will be a return of dual card slots from the big two. Their..
For whatever reason, they were holding those back from the mid-range cameras. Now,
I don't think that we'll see dual card slots in mid-range stuff moving forward,
but maybe Sony and others will kind of re-motivate Canon and Nikon to add
those back in. Let's hope. 2019 could be the year of the global shutter. Basically
that's a sensor that can record or read all of the information at once from the
sensor. So with video situations you won't have rolling shutter, Basically
there'll be some type of memory buffer on the sensor itself for every single
recording location. It'll save that information all at once, and then I'll push
it to the processor. Hopefully that's a thing in 2019. I think there is the
potential for that happening with Sony especially. Maybe even Canon, who knows.
My Canon predictions. I do think they will release two EF-M cameras. Maybe even a
third one. The first one will be the M5 revision, and then the M6.
I hope or I think they'll have a new sensor inside and that will give a lot
of more improvements with the cameras just based on the sensor readout. Could
even be a global shutter, you never know. But I kind of doubt that. We could
potentially see another lens for the EF-M system. Especially if the new cameras
they release have some type of weather resistance. Maybe a super high-end M5 II...
whatever... with slightly larger... There could even be in body shake reduction.
The thing so far with the EF-M cameras is that Canon has basically been using that
as a proving ground for their mirrorless technology. Now that we have the new
mount that might not be the case, but you never know. Maybe they will release some
stuff on the EF-M system first and then we'll get their new EOS R2 camera. So
that'll probably be really late in 2019 for a revised more advanced EOS R
camera. But I do think that's coming for sure. I don't think they would use Sony
sensors because the dual pixel AF technology is kind of inherent to how
the sensor is designed. But you never know, they might basically use their
technology and have Sony make it. But I really doubt that. Sigma is in an
interesting position for 2019. They've been really improving in the past with
all their lenses. Definitely a lot of fast impressive glass. It is huge, but
they might potentially release some smaller stuff moving forward, you never
know. Basically they're going to have the L mount alliance cameras. If they have
that and it's potentially Foveon or most likely the Foveon sensors. Which I
think is kind of a hindrance. But you never know. This new sensor might be
decent. It really needs a good mixture of photo and video to be widespread.
Basically a good full system from Sigma would be amazing. I'd really like to see
that because you have completely fully dedicated one manufacturer making the
lenses and the camera. Definitely leads to a really good video autofocus and all
that. Canon for example, and Sony. But if Sigma
were to have a full system all Sigma stuff. That looks pretty exciting to me.
Panasonic has their full frame coming up. We all know that. I do think they'll be
relatively expensive. And they'll be more focused on photography than the video
stuff because of course the screen doesn't look like it's going to flip
forward. 2019 there could be a GH6 camera. Maybe even early, but they might have
moved all of those resources to their full frame stuff. Hopefully not because a
GH6 with really good video autofocus would
be huge. You've got the great stabilization and really good video
autofocus, come on! That's a huge missed opportunity for them unless they just
decided that micro four-thirds is no longer viable.
Who knows! Olympus... They're probably gonna go more photography. Just basically keep
reiterating their micro four-thirds stuff. Doesn't look like they're going
larger sensor, which is fine. But basically they have to really own that.
Own it amazingly well. Better than Panasonic. Just basically they're gonna
have larger cameras in their micro four-thirds.
But of course they... who knows. I don't know how that's gonna go for them.
Probably not too well.
Pentax Ricoh... of course there's the few cameras they've been
announced that are coming out, but you're gonna probably have a K-3 version
whatever. And it might be some type of hybrid mirrorless. Where it's gonna still
use the K-mount, but not have any type of mirror inside. That's probably the
only way they could go. I don't know if they are going to really release a new
mirrorless mount. That be impressive, but unlikely considering what resources they
probably have.
Ahh of course Theta. Maybe a new version of that 360 D. camera.
That's probably one of their big sellers these days. And the K-1... probably a silver
version. Which I noticed on the Pentax Forums. The big thing from Pentax I could
see happening is a revised 645 with a full mirrorless mount on it.
So they can compete with Fujifilm. If they don't do that
they're probably going to be at risk of being unappealing to those photographers.
If they want smaller cameras, but who knows. With Sony we might see some really
big stuff like the global shutter come out with their cameras. The A7s III for the
most part. If that has a global shutter that's gonna be kind of game-changing
for the video stuff. Because you won't have the rolling shutter issue with that
camera. And it'll most likely be amazing with low light situations. Although they'll probably
up the price on it to $4000+ in that case. Of course maybe they'll even have
the fully articulating screen, which would be crazy for Sony. But you never
know! That would be the thing I would like to see most is that global shutter
A7s III with the flip screen. So...
I do think we'll see at least one aps-c
camera. Maybe a lens or two in that format. But we'll see mostly full-frame
stuff. More lenses for the most part. With Nikon it's kind of challenging to
guesstimate what they're going to do. Of course we will get the lenses that
they're estimating to be released on the roadmap. It was nice for them to release
some type of roadmap. Because it gives the Z owners an idea of what to expect.
But body-wise I do think we could see one... Potentially one Z camera from them.
Although they will be most likely releasing some revised versions of their
DSLRs. I should have mentioned Canon too is probably going to release some standard
DSLRs. But with Nikon I could see them releasing some type of sports version of
the Z camera in 2019.
With Fujifilm we'll probably see a lot of lens releases. But
also the X-H2. I think that's what it's called or will be called for the video
stuff. Basically the X-T3 plus all of the video stuff. The shake reduction in
the camera and all those advanced video features with improvements to all the
software side. And more... more speed and everything
for that camera. Basically their flagship for that whole line of camera. The
potentially interesting thing with Fujifilm
moving forward into 2019 is that they might be doing re-envisioning of their
fully integrated cameras. The X100, X70. And we could potentially see a full-frame
version of the X100 series. I don't think that's going to happen. I think it's
extremely unlikely, but maybe a fully re-envisioned
X100 with a new lens that's faster with autofocus. The biggest release of
2019 will be from Yongnuo with their fully integrated Android operated EF
mount mirrorless camera with full cellular connection 4G. Put a SIM card in there.
You'll have that full internet connection everywhere. You'll probably
be able to connect a screen.. keyboard to it.
Put your EF lenses on there. Do video. Do photos. Edit things in the camera or
connect it to the screen. It's gonna be amazing.
It's going to be groundbreaking.. revolutionary.. whatever words you want to
use for that camera. That's gonna be the step forward from 2019.
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If we see more of those...
two thh tw thh tdo...
then there's Panasonic... uahh...
A7s III with the flip screen... so... let's hope!
That looks pretty exciting to me...
With the mirrorless.