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personal little reflection on all the mirrorless hype right now:
Sony "won" the body war but it was an automatic victory. Sony doesn't have a dslr line to defend (or rather, worth defending.)
Nikon is selling a great camera body with a nice feature over the D850, in camera stabilization, but it appears that in the process they lost most of their 3D AF. In general the Z's AF seems pretty suspect, all tests I've seen are in full light.
Canon launched their usual thing: a great body in theory but gimped as fuck because they have a very strict sense of what's allowed and what's not on their cameras. So in sensor stab is out because fuck you I'm Canon. Cropped 4k isn't really an issue, and they have the flippy screen which is going to earn them a big chunk of market through vloggers.Their presentation was batshit insane with plenty of dim light, crazy colours, neon and darkness, which showed a ton of confidence in their AF, and it paid out - seems like Canon's AF didn't sacrifice a thing over the DSLRs, and it goes down to EV -6.
So depending on what you value more, the Nikon offers sensor stabilization and full frame 4k, so it's going to be the video weapon of choice for anyone with a bigger project, but Canon's AF, lenses, flippy screen and colour science are going to win over stills people and vloggers. Plus Canon's adapters are cheaper and more interesting, the programmable dial is a nice touch.
And here's the elephant in the room: lenses. That's where the real fight is, and while Canon is selling literal dream lenses from day one (28-70 f/2 and 50 f/1.2) and a good cheap standard lens with a quirk (35mm 1.8 macro) Nikon is selling nothing but a shitty 35 1.8 for $800, a plasticky f/4 zoom and an overpriced 50 1.8. Next year they plan a bunch of standard lenses and a 58 0.95 that's going to cost $6000. Like, they didn't even fucking try, did they?
So in the end I think Canon won over Nikon. For the moment.
