Why are all cameras Japanese?

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2 жыл бұрын

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Tony Northrup digs into why all the most successful camera companies, including Sony, Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Olympus, Pentax, and Fujifilm, are Japanese. The answer is complex, with 4 major turning points:
1) In the 1940s, WWII's divided occupation of Germany set it back, while the United States' occupation of Japan seems to have helped the Japanese camera companies
2) In the 1950s, the Korean war brought many photojournalists to the US-occupied Japan, and David Douglas Duncan, in particular, had great success with Japanese lenses on their Leica cameras. In the US, Joe Erinreich promoted Nikon heavily.
3) In the 1990s and 2000s, US digital camera companies (such as Kodak and Polaroid) failed to transition to the digital era.
4) In the 2010s, the transition from conventional cameras to smartphones saw non-Japanese camera companies (such as Samsung) exit the market. Japanese camera companies didn't have the freedom to easily exit the industry because of the legal challenges around layoffs.
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* Software is second class: • Why Japanese Technolog...
* This discussion www.photo.net/discuss/threads...
* Ehrenreich: www.nytimes.com/1973/02/09/ar...
www.klassik-cameras.de/Westdeu...
* By User:52 Pickup - Based on map data of the IEG-Maps project (Andreas Kunz, B. Johnen and Joachim Robert Moeschl: University of Mainz) - www.ieg-maps.uni-mainz.de., CC BY-SA 2.5, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
* By Yokosuka City Council - Welcome Yasuura House in Red Fox, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

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@peterrebhahn1113 2 жыл бұрын

I'm 66 years old and found this video very interesting, partly because I've lived through most of what Tony discusses. My first camera was a Pentax Spotmatic purchased in my teens. I cannot put into words the joy that mechanical camera and the chromes (slides) it created brought to me. The stuff we buy gets improved, but not our experience of life.

@rogerwilliamson7161 2 жыл бұрын

Stimmt!

@erikvalkman9640 2 жыл бұрын

Minolta man here. Very well articulated! 🎯

@z3r0ph84 2 жыл бұрын

My first camera was also a Pentax (Spotmatic F) and I’ve stayed with Pentax my whole life. It does limit what is really available but for landscape photography or Astro photography is match my Pentax with any other brand.

@kenroman777 2 жыл бұрын

I had an SRT 101 that I worked all summer to afford.

@KudoYoung 7 ай бұрын

well put good sir

@jwzerbe 2 жыл бұрын

After watching this history lesson and reading some of the comments, I've sort of come to the conclusion that the Japanese camera manufacturers are trying to keep the cameras as simple/specialized as possible in the compute area. I think that if they chose to put a droid os in the camera, the compute hardware would be outdated too quickly. A 10 year old digital camera can still take great pictures. My 10 year old I-Pad can't even be update with patches anymore. I think the better route is maybe improve on camera/cell phone interfaces so that the compute aspects of the cell phone can be upgraded over time but let the phone still talk to what will become the older cameras. The concept of Sony cameras using the phone's gps to add that data to photos is very good. It just doesn't seem to be implemented very well. We keep complaining about how the display on cameras these days may or may not flip/rotate/have good touch screen menus, etc. My droid based phone has all of those things. It just doesn't interface with the camera all that well.

@todddammit4628 2 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if its intentional, or they all just are terrible at software. But they 100% should make camera's Android based.

@unstanic 2 жыл бұрын

@@todddammit4628 The day cameras ship with Android, I will throw up.

@todddammit4628 2 жыл бұрын

@@unstanicWell you clearly have never used one.

@unstanic 2 жыл бұрын

@@todddammit4628 If I hadn't I wouldn't have such a strong opinion :P

@todddammit4628 2 жыл бұрын

@@unstanic sure. Which camera did you use then?

@LIJ 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this video! Very interesting research. As an American living in Japan, I think you've nailed it. My Japanese friends working for these big companies know that they make great products, but also know that they are behind when it comes to software. A company that's able to marry the two and keep it together could very well win out in the long run.

@brendanfr 2 жыл бұрын

its such a shame samsung stepped out, because they wouldve done it SUPER well. my S21 has pretty damn average phone camera specs for 2021, a 1/1.7" sensor, f1.8, yknow, what everyone has now. but my god... the pictures just blow my mind with the detail and color and whatnot. imagine samsung doing their processing magic on APS-C and full frame

@HappyHubris Жыл бұрын

@@brendanfr Yeah, my budget Pixel phone pulls of Amazing shots with its tiny sensor even against my full frame camera, in certain circumstances.

@CyberEditing 2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating history! Great video.👍

@kaminobatto 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! This is why I LOVE both Tony and Chelsea! They have one of very few channels that do this kind of deep dive and analysis in the industry and that is always worth the like button! Awesome content!

@10rollsoffilm11 2 жыл бұрын

Really interesting topic, great stuff Tony! Another important factor that helped Japanese companies 'copy and improve' upon the German designs (by Leica, Rollei, Zeiss, etc) was that a lot of German patents were put into public domain post-WWII, which made copying easy and legal + it allowed Japanese companies to channel more of their resources into improving the designs (see the history of Nikon's rangefinder 50mm f/1.4, a copied and improved Zeiss Sonnar).

@chrisbaudeg3233 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, Agfa > Ansco

@NefHack 2 жыл бұрын

I love the way you explain history. Make more content like this

@studioevision544 2 жыл бұрын

Yessss

@alexb.8251 2 жыл бұрын

Dear Tony, you forgot soviet photo industry. FED, Zorky and Kiev rangefinders, Zenit SRL's were produced in millions and exported in many countries. For example Zenit E- srl serie (1970-s) were produced in 12 millions. And this industry died in 1990-s. Now Krasnogorsky mechanical factory which produced Zorky and Zenit cameras is still producing some lences for cameras (Zenitar), but the main production of the factory is a military optical equipment

@shawnbarry5553 2 жыл бұрын

The portrayal of the Soviets "stealing" camera designs and manufacturing processes while praising Japan for doing the exact same thing through Kaizen is a little disingenuous. The fact that the West specifically banned Soviet products inherently limited their market reach, not the fact that the Russians didn't know what they were doing. I would have appreciated a more well-rounded examination of this, but capitalism runs deep and distorts history.

@davidroseman3287 2 жыл бұрын

@@shawnbarry5553 He didn’t say the Soviets stole designs, he said they stole entire factories. In Canada and in Europe it was possible to buy Soviet equipment (cars, cameras, watches, etc). Their optics were quite good, but obviously their equipment coiuld never measure up to that produced in Japan or in Germany.

@memathews 2 жыл бұрын

My first SLR camera was a Zenit-E. It took nice, sharp photos, but it was a bit clunky with a manual appetite stop-down and other odd features.

@alexb.8251 2 жыл бұрын

@@davidroseman3287 What you mean by “stole” ? Germans invaded Soviet Union, destroyed hundreds cities and hundreds thousands of villages, killed 20 millions of civil peoples, destroyed thousands of factories... And after victory soviet government took equipment from german factories to restore a bit of economics ruined by germans? It called indemnity

@davidroseman3287 2 жыл бұрын

@@alexb.8251 I didn't say anything - I was merely correcting the paraphrasing of the video. Since you raise it though technically, it was stealing. Whether morally justified is an entirely different matter. When a starving person steals a loaf of bread it is not immoral. In terms of history, Stalin killed millions of people and crushed the spirit of his people. And Mao killed more people than Stalin and the Nazis combined. And yes, the Cambodians were possibly in some ways the most vicious of all. None of this has anything to do with camera production, however.

@VacMaster1991 2 жыл бұрын

I am a big fan of Japanese craftsmanship. From cameras , lenses cars and kitchen knives. Batteries to. I always look for Japanese manufacturered Batteries when I need replacements.

@timexkills65 2 жыл бұрын

We basically said you can’t build military equipment so they made civilian equipment. Like Mitsubishi made war planes before cars .

@TonyAndChelsea 2 жыл бұрын

This was part of it… Americas best minds were building military weapons.

@richardt1792 2 жыл бұрын

One thing I would like to add is the work of Mr William Edwards Demings. He was an American engineer that went to Japan after WWII and introduced TQM, total quality management. Something that many of us has been trained in it at our workplace. It was a program that helped develop Japan as a country that produced products of amazing quality. TQM not only improved cameras, it is why for decades, Americans preferred Japanese cars, stereos, and other electronics.

@jackkraken3888 2 жыл бұрын

I remembering studying this in years ago and largely forgot this aspect but over time I began remembering parts. I still remember reading about how Japan before occupation wasn't that different from China in making poor quality knockoffs and it's really strange how this point seems largely omitted when we talk about Japan, as if they always made high quality electronics. I wonder if this also contributed negatively in some ways as well as their work ethic is kinda weird and even dangerous sometimes, like their Japanese culture didn't properly mix with capitalism and you end up with some strange hybrid.

@richardt1792 2 жыл бұрын

@@jackkraken3888 I suspect that Deming saw plenty of examples of Japanese craftsmanship from making swords to making sushi but it didn't transfer to a factory environment. The U.S. was putting out better assembly line products. When the Demings approach was applied to a culture that had high attention to detail standards, Japan produced superior manufactured goods. Some cultures are simply far more meticulous than others. Do you want a Swiss watch of an American made watch?

@jackkraken3888 2 жыл бұрын

@@richardt1792 I can definitely see your point about meticulousness.

@elinavance3476 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, for your knowledge, I never heard about William Edwards Demings. Very interesting!

@josephedwardnancheta3286 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for making this short informative video. I am now in my 60s and I have held cameras (stills & videos) since I was 5yrs old. It is only now that I am enlightened about this camera industry. Thank you.

@MMaven 2 жыл бұрын

Really interesting! Thank you, Tony!

@theDanDeleon 2 жыл бұрын

We miss you, man.

2 жыл бұрын

We miss you. We miss your reviews. R5 and R6 still waiting ;)

@chafrewilcha 2 жыл бұрын

WOW! One of the BEST dissertations on any subject that I've here anywhere at anytime! SUPERB Tony!!!

@nafnaf0 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Tony and Chelsea, a very interesting video. This is something I wondered about myself

@rickysunshen5504 2 жыл бұрын

Learned a lot from this video thank you very much. keep this up!

@zen_of_chloe 2 жыл бұрын

Sudden nostalgia when my Ricoh SLR shows up as the “perfected” SLR design. I won’t argue. That camera worked for me for decades, and I never stopped loving it, I just outgrew it.

@winstonpx 2 жыл бұрын

I really love camera history videos once in a while. I learned so much, thank you!

@kingfisher111 2 жыл бұрын

Really good to see u picking these subjects and making such detailed videos. Pls do more.. 🙏🏼

@govaire 2 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love the passion you display when presenting videos like this. Thank you for all the detail and effort it takes in order to inform the world in this way. Cheers.

@GrandpaTom 2 жыл бұрын

Tony, You are an impressive guy! Wow what a great video!! I loved it and learned a lot.

@tomwhite160 2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating to watch and learn! THANK YOU!

@stevearita3267 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video! I guess I had a sense of how Canon and Nikon rose as good camera companies, but understanding how world events shaped japanese vs german cameras and development was really fascinating! Thank you for doing this video!

@genebraaksma 2 жыл бұрын

Great video Tony, as a young boy growing up in the 50s and 60s I lived through all that you talked about include Kodaks cheap 126 cameras. My first camera by the way and the Japanese companies dominating the 35mm market With a Minolta rangefinder being my first 35mm and a Pentax Spotmactic being my second. Still own the Pentax to this day and it still works. I'm now a Canon guy with several Canon DSLRs under my belt. Hoping to get a good used Canon 5D mk3 soon. I feel my skills have advanced a lot through the years but oh those years roll by. Thank you and Chelsea for a great informational site. Love watching your videos. My main focus is bird and landscape photography. Thanks again Gene.

@raevn11 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for putting in the leg-work and giving us a quick ed. Interesting topic.

@paulhills1967 2 жыл бұрын

What an interesting video. Thanks Tony for all the hard work that went into this.

@techusmaximus7102 2 жыл бұрын

Another great video! Definitely like the history aspect of it. I think it is a good change pace for your channel. I would definitely watch more of it it. I pretty much watch everything you guys put out, the information is second to none. I very much trust you and Chelsea’s knowledge of cameras and photography. Thanks for sharing

@rainerbuesching1 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for these insights. But I am glad Sony, Fuji, Canon, Nikon won't go into "computational photography" anytime soon. I do use my smartphone for photos - where did I park my car - but when a "real" camera is involved, photographing becomes addiction, art, life for me.

@Loanshark753 5 ай бұрын

Most smartphone camera sensors are made by Sony and Samsung. So Sony is enabling computational photography by providing camera sensors and lidar sensors. Including high framerates.

@JoaquimGonsalves 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for being one of the few channels that area not only always up to date on the tech but also pay equal attention to the heritage and history.

@mmorriseyemd 2 жыл бұрын

This was probably your best most informative videos. Thank you for your thoughtful analysis.

@keith819 2 жыл бұрын

What an amazing video, I definitely didn't expect this much history

@madmechanic7641 2 жыл бұрын

Always hated history at school Tony, But I sat and listened to every word of this.. Brilliant

@LokiDWolf 2 жыл бұрын

This was great! I love history and science so this was right up my alley. I remember learning the history about motorcycle companies and the changes due to WWII. Amazing the changes that came about because of that war.

@stebobrown2893 2 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed this presentation. I kinda lived a lot of the history you gave us. My 1st 35mm was a Kodak Retina Reflex and then discovered Nikon when I moved to Japan. Been Nikon for 5 decades. Thanks for sharing your research, I hope to see more like this.

@rudyreimer302 2 жыл бұрын

Great vid! Some history I did not know. Thank you!

@MarlonSardini 2 жыл бұрын

Insanely interesting, thanks a lot for this content!

@2mcarp 2 жыл бұрын

Very insightful and informative. Thanks for that.

@kh1188ish 2 жыл бұрын

Great research and explanation. I didn’t know any of this so thank you for sharing.

@sapphirephoenix75 2 жыл бұрын

Such and interesting piece! Thanks Tony!

@wallywo7392 2 жыл бұрын

Tony this was brilliant, my favourite yet. More videos of similar content would be great!!!!

@crispy_otter 2 жыл бұрын

A nicely compiled and concise history - thanks Tony!

@Alexander.Portnoy 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this excellent analysis and historic excourse!!! 👍🏻

@krisnaive 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video! Learned so much

@truthsurfer808 2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating information! Thanks for sharing!

@GatorheadLuis 2 жыл бұрын

Great Video. I enjoy these history related videos the most. I understand gear reviews are needed but more of these types.

@TheThaiLife 2 жыл бұрын

Great info and so interesting! Thank you!

@chadleylarnelle4792 2 жыл бұрын

Very insightful and interesting video. Thats it still thinking about all the information.

@djack4125 2 жыл бұрын

Insightful presentation, Tony.

@annarakannan6620 2 жыл бұрын

Great job Tony. Loved the Lesson.

@lkaufman719 2 жыл бұрын

One of your BEST videos! Thanks.

@frankseophotos9633 2 жыл бұрын

Very good camera history lecture! I hope I can watch these contents more often. It was so interesting. It's much better than gear talk 😆

@raymondjacoub110 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this historical context, so eloquently presented.

@trevorpsy 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent, concise summary of a lot of intertwined events. Thanks for your research.

@danielhenzphotography 2 жыл бұрын

Watched your brand videos from a few years back about Canon, Nikon and Sony. This new video sum it up pretty great. Thanks

@15ThousandDayCrisis 2 жыл бұрын

Great analysis Tony, I really enjoyed that. Thank you.

@ShitStefanShoots 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty close, but no cigar! The reason Japanese optical industry could "improve" on the German design was that - as a sort of "repair" payment - all German patents were declared void and everyone could have at it. This is a HUGE reason, why Nikkor lenses were "adapted" to Leica bodies in the 1950s. No grudge, though - being German myself I am using Nikon cameras since 1979 and my short stint with Leica only left bad memories ;o)

@lsh7098 2 жыл бұрын

Careful, the Leica cult will come for you

@maxdmachy 2 жыл бұрын

Which products displeased you? I think many products are awesome haptically and quality wise. Letdowns were the early SL bodies, zoom lenses and the f2.0 was it 40mm, designed by Minolta for the Leica CL

@ShitStefanShoots 2 жыл бұрын

@@maxdmachy I had a Leica M2 with 2/35, 2/50 and 2.8/90 in the late 80s/mid 90s as well as a M Monochrom (in 2018) with a 1,4/50 ASPH. It's just not my kind of camera and the "superior quality" is just rubbish. The M Monochrom has a horrible menu system and the rear monitor is a joke. I shot several models in parallel with the M M and my D610 (also 24 MP) and the Nikkor 1,4/50. You can't tell which camera took what picture. Expensive stuff forcing you to work very slow without any benefit whatsoever.

@waltermayr339 2 жыл бұрын

@@ShitStefanShoots When I - a now 76-year-old photographer - put a negative, which was photographed with the Leica M2 and the Summicron 35mm, into the enlarger, I could immediately notice the increase in precision compared to Nikon.

@ShitStefanShoots 2 жыл бұрын

@@waltermayr339 whatever .... I had it all, analog and digital, and Nikon is the better tool for my photography.

@SMoeun-zs9ji 2 жыл бұрын

One point to be considered is that Japan has applied the concept of Total Quality Management by William Edwards Deming. That's one of the reasons why Japan's economy grew fast and well-known for the quality.

@ajh5124 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting and informative. Thank you!

@ludwigsuju4000 2 жыл бұрын

This is a great informational video. Makes complete sense at many levels.

@NikCan66 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant historical information and the effects of the wider camera industry up to this day.

@chrismccrth0 2 жыл бұрын

Great Video Tony! Really interesting

@michaelajoseph6856 2 жыл бұрын

This was very interesting! Thank you Tony!

@TonyAndChelsea 2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@chrlslvy 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, and great interweaving of history in the marketplace

@chesphoto 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice history lesson, thanks Tony!

@tricamel 2 жыл бұрын

Great history video. Thanks Tony, good original content.

@RFGfotografie 2 жыл бұрын

This demands a whole documentary, this is like a simple recap. A very good one though.

@MitchGaar 2 жыл бұрын

I got your Photography Book and love it. Great Work....

@johngrier7779 2 жыл бұрын

Love the analysis. You highlight things I haven't though of. Thanks.

@artmaltman 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent. Very insightful. Thank you.

@bobsykes 2 жыл бұрын

This was a facinating one, especially the majority of the production that's about history. Indeed, I (63 y.o.) used Nikon cameras and thier beautiful early lenses for decades. My viewpoint diverges from yours near the end. Yes, I have an iPhone Pro, and it's amazing for what a little thing in my back pocket can do. But I don't want my photos to all look like a postcard from the '80's. Leica M and Hasselblad X1D cameras make photos that to me, look like photos! I'll never trade that for "computational photoagraphy." The resurgence of film with younger folks, mostly using spectactular optics from the old medium format days, suggests that people can see what you can do with great optics, and it is a radically different thing than the great things you can do with the best cell phone cameras.

@UnfairCrow23 2 жыл бұрын

The shift to autofocus was also a big deal. That was when Canon and Nikon started pulling ahead of other Japanese manufacturers.

@112wade 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tony, very informative history of the camera evolution.

@guyloughridge4628 2 жыл бұрын

This was a wonderful journey into history. I very much enjoyed your presentation. Excellent research and it was well presented. I do remember Kodak and Polaroid as being the most desired and most purchased cameras in the USA. I still have a functioning Kodak Retina and an Argus. Both made in the USA. Both companies are now gone. Thanks Tony ! Please take us down memory lane a few more times.

@philhodgkinson1460 6 ай бұрын

Yes I love Yr video too....the historical context is so so valuable....for all associated with Photography whether amateur or pro.... or indeed just Joe Bloggs or Jon doe... and the ladies too.......

@j.m.gratton6000 2 жыл бұрын

The Japanese approach and culture are things that I prize, and that is why I will never part with the Made in Japan Nikon gear that I've accumulated over my life. I still use my D3/D3x/D4 and D800E for my work. I even made sure to buy a Z6 since it was also made in Japan. I have everything I need for whatever job I take on. I've invested in excellent gear from the get-go and it has paid off multiple times. Why would I sell this stuff? It still renders wonderful output and this gear continues to meet my professional and personal needs. Cheers and happy shooting!

@abchappell01 2 жыл бұрын

This was an an excellent video presentation. Thank you so much.

@jamesv.wilkerson30 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting. Thanks for nerding out.

@BonaventureHope 2 жыл бұрын

An excellent video! Very informative and thought provoking!

@LiveMyJourneyTom 2 жыл бұрын

Very enlightening!

@ivedigga 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful video & I really enjoyed it & I think it could have been longer

@jamiegarton8518 2 жыл бұрын

Well done, I love camera history. Thanks Tony.

@Anghor 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Hope its just a beginning and you will dive deeper into particular companies, breakthroughs etc. Such historical content (and context) is so great! Thanks :) My only issue is map after II WW - Poland definitely didn't (and still doesn't) look like that after 1945 :-)

@Nordic_Lite 2 жыл бұрын

It sure doesn't. I am looking and thinking, like, what is that country in between the two "Polands"..))

@amermeleitor 2 жыл бұрын

I asked this a time ago. The video is excellent, much better than I would expect. The cultural and historic aspects of Japan are a big difference from west countries that I haven't thought about.

@workingwiththelight3119 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Tony. It was very interesting and educational.

@Bo_Hazem 2 жыл бұрын

Probably the best video ever in this channel. Simply brilliant!

@ShadyJay77 2 жыл бұрын

Very informative Tony.

@samirshah5411 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video, thank you!

@TheAdamToy 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! I really enjoyed the history lesson Tony!

@TonyAndChelsea 2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it!

@GavinBuffett 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting summary. I live in Japan and worked for Canon for a few years. The software point at the end really is true. Making things, monotsukuri, is highly revered. Of all camera companies in Japan probably Fujifilm is best placed to reinvent itself as a force in healthcare.

@atholbayne9605 2 жыл бұрын

Great History Thank You Tony

@MisaelLopezLucho 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video to know the great history of the camera, excellent work

@randyschwager84 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting info! Thanks!

@Bishnu_Deb 2 жыл бұрын

Lovely video. Enjoyed watching it.

@rogerisaacs5160 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting ideas, thanks. In the last year Japan has shown leadership in computational photography. Sony, Canon (et al) now have features where you can set the camera to locate, track and focus automatically on an animal's eye or head (human, bird, mammal etc), and track & focus on things like motorbike or racecar driver helmet have been added. The canon R3 allows setting focus on an object by looking at the object in the view finder. I'm excited about trying photography of birds in flight again, having the camera locate, track and focus on the eye of a fast flying bird is a huge benefit.

@DetroitVideoDiaries 2 жыл бұрын

thats why i am still waiting for my fx6. Thanks Tony

@tehsin13 2 жыл бұрын

Really nice informational video. I used to love software side of the photography and was really fan of what a smartphone can do. As I am getting older, I appreciate more the mechanical stuff and prefer taking my photos 'manually' as much as possible.

@BizAndProductReviews 2 жыл бұрын

This is by far one of the most enjoyable videos that you have on your channel. Photography is very intertwined with storytelling and this episode was extremely interesting. The sad thing is that I was one of those people who bought a Samsung camera and even though they looked nice, they were crap and didn't get any support. Till this day, I refuse to buy Samsung products because I don't like companies that don't have good support.

@lattesweden 2 жыл бұрын

Though Sonys own mobiles (which originates from their purchase of the Swedish Ericsson mobile division) don't do so well in sales numbers, they have their sensor division that has half the world market for sensors and is used by many top mobile brands like Apple for instance. Also on the sensor side Sony sensors are used by most other brands fully, or in some models. Sony sensors can be found in brands like: Pentax, Nikon, Hasselblad, Phase One, Panasonic, Leica, Olympus, Sigma, Fuji (and even Canon on the 1-inch side) and by Sonys own camera division off course (which originates from their purchase of Konica Minoltas camera division). So Sony is like the digital Kodak, they make the digital "film" for most others and also some cameras of their own.

@mwales2112 2 жыл бұрын

Great work Tony.... Love my Leica rangefinder.....

@SIMKINETICS 2 жыл бұрын

I bought a Minolta SR-T 101 in 1969 as a present to my wife. It worked flawlessly at least until my (ex) wife replaced it with a DSLR a dozen years ago, despite being banged around for decades. The optics were first-rate, and the photos rarely were exposed incorrectly! How many products last 4 decades with great performance & no malfunction or repair?