A couple of weeks ago this area and most part of Fukuoka Prefecture was quite quiet like in this image as the gvt ordered curfew and they had to respect the rule.
But now it is really crowded again, every night it is difficult to avoid careless really obtuse people here, many of them are coughing but not even wearing a proper face shield or mask.
The Japanese are the most careless flippant people , they never get serious about anything even in this serious time, they never cooperate for social distancing thing....and now having the big second wave of COVID-19 attack......every day many people are dying again here, still they do not take it serious about it. Having parties , drinking out and playing so-called Pachinko (like legal casino like thing here) every night in a dirty smoking room.....as everybody smokes there.
Here's why I think the ILC industry is dying and it is inevitable:
sometimes phone is the best camera as we always have it on us even on a long run or walk. this time I actually had my A7R3 and FE24-105mm f4G kit on me , but I could not use it as I had to keep my usual running speed like 7km per hour pace.
also people freak out if I use a tripod on the middle of a side walk like this. I need to avoid faces of people in any of my image posted to avoid potential lawsuits or privacy related legal issues. it is really complicated now and many people are paranoid about a big lens and especially a tripod.
they never understand that they do not appear big or clear in my images as I shoot only wide angle......at slower shutter speeds like 1/5s and slower.
so if camera companies want to sell more cameras they must educated the obtuse public and also need to make it more social-media friendly... in addition to that, they need some sort of sophisticated in-camera image quality enhancing tools(just like all modern phones have).
the biggest reason normal people hate serious cameras is the SOOC IQ is terrible......it requires hours of Photoshop or Capture One works to finally shine.
no busy normal people have that kind of free time , now we got it due to the unexpected pandemic crisis, but normally we do not have that kind of time.
another big issue with the current camera community is that many many so called experts and forum denizens really are really terrible people , looking down any snap-shooters or snaps , every time some one brings up we need simpler and smarter camera solution, or for some people phone can be the best smart camera solution , they just mock those people and general snap shooters.....
but about 80 percent of images online are snaps of their memories or documentary of one's life........what is wrong with that?
why do they think some sports or landscape images of some rare locations are more important than those so-called much mocked snaps?
most of people are not interested in shooting BIF, sports , or some exotic landscapes , but just casual every day things.
and some people want to shoot these snaps with a better IQ camera , nothing wrong with that...
but the current elitist camera community online mocks those people and therefore they are discouraged to try it.
another huge issue of the camera makers is they do listen to those elitist camera snobs or more like elitist gear heads.
so they focus on the long lenses, portrait or landscape primes , but no pay attention to serious TS or street lenses.
but many of normal people who are interested in trying an ILC are more interested in their friends, families, travel snaps , foods, social events ,etc.......and documenting these events are their passion. and actually it is a big forgotten market.
I think there are many new markets for cameras if they make it smart enough, but they tend to ignore them because camera makers think the hardcore gear obsessed elitist old mans camera market is the most important to them.
I think they are too scared to make it really innovative or really J-Peg friendly , as many of those elitists mock loathe jpeg or people shooting that. Loathe is a bit too strong word for this, but close enough , IMHO.
How many of these DPR guys being so proud of they are absolutely 100 percent RAW shooters?
If camera makers try to make every camera for them, then of course no other kinds of photogs or potential future photographers buy them.
It is just like the highend audio market in the early 2002 or 2003...
with that said , I think one thing we are very sure about now is the mFT is a really doomed if not the most doomed or irrelevant format to most of us.....it is not much better than phones , still not as portable as Sony RX100MK7 or Fuji X100V....it cannot rival FF in IQ.
I think m43 should not be a system , but a great street compact camera format....they can make it really smart with multi sensor -lens set up like phones or Light L 16 from 2016.
If they can make 43 smart cameras with multi sensor lens set up rather than interchangeable , they may make it valuable relevant again.
I really want such a camera as I walk run a lot these days.
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