Noob here. How did a Playstation gaming company dethrone all the legacy camera companies?

Was it because the move to mirrorless was the perfect catalyst to leverage their electronics tech knowhow?

Send here more Walter White memes please

Micro contrast is not real. 3D pop is not real.
Well, they may be real phenomena of an image, but they are not imparted by certain lenses due to certain optical designs.

Anyone who supports the idea of 3D pop, Zeiss pop, or micro contrast is an anti-science luddite or a grifter.

Watch any of these people try to explain what 3D pop or micro contrast is and their bullshit is self evident. If a phenomenon cannot be described using scientific language and measured objectively, it isn't real.

Every time you see an A/B test for 3D pop or microcontrast, the tester is using different camera bodies, or the composition is different, the color grade is different, different exposure levels or the lighting has changed.

The only other area that has so much peasant level superstition has got to be pro audio.

I remember the first 6 months into it were a blast. Grabbing my first DSLR and go out shooting from landscapes to wildlife.
But then, as I've mastered it, I don't have the motivation to go out and take pictures anymore. Everything is more or less the same: Go out, takes hundreds of pics, edit the 5% best, print the 1% best, rinse and repeat.

I get photography is a simple science and anyone can do that, even professionally, but I've tried my best and challenged myself to shoot only primes or different types of photography, but there isn't anything I can't do.
Am I doing something wrong, perhaps?

This is such a damn chore to use, What's a paid alt that doesn't use cloud servers?

After doing intense research, I just found the holy grail cost-benefit wise, camera for portraits and action, that performs in low-light and it's affordable, with professional-tier lenses (also affordable).
Thought on that plus any XF 55 mm lens?

The Nikon D810 and Canon 5dm3 are now over 10 years old.
Where did the time go?

Crazy to think photography sensors were not going to improve at all in the following 10 years after such an amazing run of improvements.

GH5ii, GH6, GH7, G9ii?

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?