>>4273341>Innovation really stoppedReadout and on camera processing recently got good enough to finally do away with the tragedy that was "Full frame means DSLR" and "you're meant to use a different camera to make a movie". No more lens design constraints, no more retarded OVF that's halfway between digital crutch and analog crutch, no more piles of tech. Subject recognition AF got good enough to turn sports photographers from high flying professionals to unimpressive gearfags and kill the focus puller (actually did with canon DPAF in live view, but then you're using an older canon sensor). The second and third gen MILCs of every brand (fourth gen xt's for fuji) ironed out all the kinks and won't be meaningfully outclassed for the next 10-15 years except for the kind of rarely performed specialty work people always rented specialty equipment for anyways, like ultra high speed cameras.
At this point, you truly have everything you could ever ask for and will never have to bend over backwards for some retarded half-baked tech again. Photography is just about the content, technology finally achieved what it was supposed to. Remove the years of practice and days of work from painting.
And all these middling-gen cameras we have now are easy to score for under $1500 each in an age where disposable smartphones and laptops cost more. The cheapest and yet overly sufficient ones came out in 2017. They were not an unimaginable leap forward no one saw coming either, it's just the same sort of shit we already had on smaller sensors, processors got faster.
If the early 90s minolta maxxums and canon EOS shit says anything, they'll all be working at least 30 years from now barring abuse. The "advancement you dont see coming" is just faster readout and data throughput for cameras with even bigger sensors, that's it. 2030, 4k480 video in FF, but man will anyone really care when 4k120 is hardly a deal breaker and 1080p is STILL good enough, unless viewers are nose-to-screen?
