Re:Olympus quits camera business after 84 years
by arghwhat on Thursday June 25, 2020 @05:06PM
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> I always saw Canon as a large conglomerate who tacked on photography as another arm of their company
Just for reference, what is now Canon started purely as a company making camera bodies, using lenses from what is now Nikon (who didn't make cameras themselves until much later).
They're a big conglomerate now, but they're a camera company at their core.
I would love to support Nikon as well, but affording one good camera system is hard enough. And quite frankly, everyone is suffering. Spreading our bets for the sake of competition can also lead to no single company being sustainable.
Re:Olympus quits camera business after 84 years
by kenhwang on Thursday June 25, 2020 @05:29PM
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The irony of that statement is that Nikon is part of the biggest conglomerate family in the world (Mitsubishi), while Canon is mostly still a camera company.
Just for reference, what is now Canon started purely as a company making camera bodies, using lenses from what is now Nikon (who didn't make cameras themselves until much later).
They're a big conglomerate now, but they're a camera company at their core.
I would love to support Nikon as well, but affording one good camera system is hard enough. And quite frankly, everyone is suffering. Spreading our bets for the sake of competition can also lead to no single company being sustainable.