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TildalWave :official_verified: · @tildalwave

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Why nobody ever mentions Canon's third-party manufacturer lock out in their camera reviews?

Disclaimer: This will be a #rant!

We all know #Canon is the ONLY major #camera manufacturer that doesn't license their #mirrorless mount technology, but, to add insult to injury, #Canon is, since this summer, now also threatening legal action against third-party RF mount lens manufacturers for IP rights infringement and, as an immediate consequence, you might have noticed your favourite #photography equipment supplier had since removed all such products from their shelves. You might have also noticed that Canon is now aggressively #marketing their subscription and cloud-based image processing solutions (#IPaaS?), and otherwise locking their users into "Canon || GTFO" culture.

Well, guess what, as an #adaptarian (vintage lens adoption enthusiast), I guess that leaves me no other option but to take the only road offered and GTFO ASAP, before I spend a fortune on what other #MILC manufacturers consider worthier of supporting off the shelf and, more often than not, free of charge or at least for a reasonably small fee (with income of that directly supporting development of those features).

Canon has been, and still is, by far the slowest and most hesitant to include even the most basic modern digital camera #FTM (full-time manual) features into their cams and probably only do include some of it to appease indy filmographers and documentarists (to which they will shamelessly offer insanely niche products that cost more than your house and still not make use of their so precious IP to their full potential). And this latest "vendor lock out with a vengeance" means that I can't look forward to things like focus confirm chipped adapters, auto-focusing helicoids, ability to load lens correction data into the cam or even something as simple as writing the darn focal length (that you need to put in for your #IBIS to work correctly anyway) into your file's #EXIF data. And just forget about your camera's ability to hold a list of such vintage lenses that you might own so you could conveniently select from when changing the lens and then writing that info into EXIF. Or, better still, that it would offer that automatically when an unidentified lens is mounted. Or indeed any of that jazz that is readily available with other manufacturers, is trivial to implement should they choose to and would be much appreciated by their enthusiast community.

So, TL;DR and with Lenny Kravitz's "Are You Gonna Go My Way" playing in the background: Canon is, systematically and methodically pushing out its #enthusiast user base and killing #creativity in the process. And all those photography review sites failing to acknowledge that in their final ratings or at least mentioning it with a single line in their lengthy and "thorough" reviews either don't know what they're talking about, are being sloppy, or they're simply in on it. But hey, nice "Clash of the Titans" #vlogs!

Q.E.D.

Thanks for reading and have a nice Saturday!

#rant #canon #camera #mirrorless #photography #marketing #ipaas #adaptarian #milc #ftm #ibis #exif #enthusiast #creativity #vlogs