 Okay, so I don't want to overthink this video too much because I just want to get it out of the way Because I'll be honest. I really hesitated to even make this video Now I'm concerned about ever coming off negative because I truly want to help people. That's why I made this channel I love photography, but I also think that I there isn't a voice that's talking about Something a little different than what seems to be dominating the conversation So when I go on YouTube all I see is why I'm switching to Sony why I'm switching from Canon I switched back to Canon and I Have to constantly filter that out and say I'm not interested to Google or YouTube But I keep seeing it. So clearly there's a demand for it, right? There has to be a demand or people wouldn't be making these videos But I have a few things. I just want to talk about that. I think people should consider one Why are people making these videos? It's a bit narcissistic to Have to make videos like why I switched to Canon why I did this why I did that Why do I care? I don't care about your dilemma of Whether you're gonna switch the process of switching and it sounds really exhausting Always thinking about gear if you're thinking about gear, you're probably not thinking about other things I think what you talk about is indicative of what you really think about what you spend time on and If you're spending so much time on gear, you're probably not really working on your photography or looking at Different techniques or the craft of it all, you know, there was this one channel and I'm not gonna say who it was but he used to have this great channel it was all about art of photography and this guy eventually became Mr. Camera reviewer, you know, just another one of these many reviewers with sensational headlines like 50 megapixel beast like It's like all these YouTube titles also read like a Trump rally with the all caps like that's out of hand as well So I did make a list of stuff. I wanted to just get through real quick So I bring up narcissism and I know that puts me in the crosshairs Obviously, I'm making a video on YouTube. How am I any different? Am I a narcissist or am I doing something narcissistic? And of course, I've considered it or I wouldn't have made this video I don't Bring this up in order, you know to like for fame or anything like that, of course I my channel is not I don't I'll be honest with you guys I really don't like being in front of the camera, but I love photography. I teach photography for I don't know if I want to say for a living because my income my income is from professional photography But I'm fully entrenched in photography. I love this stuff And I want to be able to reach more people and have a conversation with more people and reach like-minded people And I'm finding it hard to do just in person Which I would always prefer So Back to the point of this video. Why I think it's so ludicrous to constantly be talking about or considering switching camera gear So Let's go to a business standpoint. If you're doing this for work. So you're making your living off of photography The worst thing you can do is make more purchases. That's hitting your bottom line So you really should consider if you need to upgrade gear or not I Skip every generation pretty much. So I started I started professional photography quite a while ago The first camera I was shooting on was the 40d Which I was frustrated by the limitations of so I got a 5d mark 1 soon as I could afford it Then the mark 2 came out Actually, I might have gone in the mark 1 when the 2 had already come out, but I couldn't afford it When the 2 was out, I didn't feel like it did anything fundamentally different than when what my mark 1 could do It was better in many ways, right? But the fundamental Issues I had with the mark 1 weren't really addressed the autofocus system wasn't much better It was still you were still limited to focus in the middle, you know, your one cross type or I don't know how many it had But it was very limited. It's not like it didn't have the autofocus system of the mark 3 So I skipped it. I didn't get a mark 2. I didn't do video at the time and I was fine with the mark 1 and It had some limitations that the mark 2 didn't quite have it didn't have great low light performance, but the mark 2 wasn't a game changer But when the 3 came out, I got that That was a game changer for me I was able to shoot without strobe Where I would have relied a lot on strobe with the mark 1 I was able to just bump up the iso The autofocus system was revolutionary compared to the mark 1. So it fundamentally changed what I could do with my photography But in the meanwhile, because I worked with my limitation of having the mark 1 I became a better photographer My work is probably better now But in some respects, I was a better photographer when I shot with the mark 1 because my timing was so good Like I didn't have a burst shot. I didn't have a great autofocus system So the mechanical ability that I had to develop to work with that camera Probably was higher than it is now in all honesty because the easier they make it the less skill it requires, right? So there's another reason not to switch you are made better by your limitations Okay, so I talked about the cost of buying a new camera and how it doesn't really help your business If that's your goal, right? If your goal is to make money You don't want to have to upgrade a camera I really dread when a new camera comes out almost because there will be that part of me that's compelled to get one Um, I did resist. I did not get the mark for I have the 5d mark 3 That's what I'm recording. Actually, no, I'm recording on 7d mark 2 right now What I did is I was terrified of the mark 3 failing So I said, you know what? I'd rather spend a thousand bucks on a 7d mark 2, which also has some pros to it I like the crop form factor for different things I can put a telephoto lens and get more reach that kind of thing It had great autofocus that the mark 3 doesn't have as far as specifically with video with the live view tracking But let's talk about the cost of switching an entire system It makes so little sense to do Especially from a business standpoint, you are most likely going to lose money on the gear you sell to buy new gear because you're buying a new camera that you can't get on the youth's market A camera doesn't hold its value very well So you're going to pay top dollar for a brand new camera And most people are talking, oh, I'm switching from Canon Well, Canon lenses are cheaper And a lot of things with Canon are cheaper so You're basically not only going to lose the money On your investment. I should call it an investment But you're going to lose money on what you purchased all your lenses And then you're going to have to buy more expensive lenses Doesn't make sense and you have to think what's the payoff? What am I getting out of Changing systems like what is such a game changer that it made all of that worth it? It made it worth to not be shooting and thinking about more interesting things It made it worth, you know, all the research you had to do It's really doubtful that it's a game changer for your actual work I mean If we were to give it a precise amount What amount does a new camera make your work better? Like what? High estimate, I think would be 5% better and that's being generous maybe 10 Is that going to be noticeable to anyone? Absolutely not So that I really think this is a huge mistake. Next one I want to talk about why Why people are switching from canon a little bit a lot of There's some misnomers or like common knowledge that is completely false if you ask me And it kind of ties into the fact that people just talk about stuff. They don't know anything about I'm not going to pretend. I know anything about canon Corporate culture. I'm not going to pretend. I know anything about corporate culture at all really. I mean in college I worked at Best Buy. I was a salesperson. That's doesn't give me insight to the corporate office of Best Buy doesn't give me insight to any corporate office and The idea that you know better than a bunch of people who do this for a living for a very long time Is just like it's hard to get my mind around especially people that Like they're basically typing out advice for canon and it's like well, what do you do for a living? Like what gives you such insight? So I'm not really concerned. I'm about the argument that canon Is turning their back on consumers and that they need to do blah blah blah blah blah. I understand that there is a perception that Canon's not innovating and they're not trying I don't buy it though. I really don't because if you look at canon cameras feature set overall What does it have going for itself more lenses? Maybe better lenses that one might be arguable and A better selection. They have the best biggest range of lenses. So biggest range of lenses um The quality of the lenses I mean they Everyone else is still catching up. They are catching up, but Canon still has lenses. All right, and this is going to tie into another thing So a lot of people are switching to sony, but keeping their canon lenses Huh, that's interesting yet. They say i'm leaving canon because so they don't offer this or that But they're all so they're switching to sony. They're keeping a lot of their canon gear But then eventually canon is going to come out with a mirrorless camera And that mirrorless camera will probably work with canon lenses better. So have some patience I mean like what is this urgency that you have to buy a new camera? So back to what canon does have going for itself. Nobody denies that canon has the best color science I find that phrasing obnoxious to be honest, but Canon has the best colors canon has the best bodies the best ergonomics We've already talked about the glass I wish canon did have in body stabilization. I will I will say that But everyone's one of the things people like to say is like, oh, they're so behind. They're so behind like What do you mean? They're so behind like The day they announce a mirrorless camera This is under the assumption that mirrorless is better. And I think there Is a consensus now that mirrorless is better But as soon as canon offers a camera with mirrorless technology plus All of canon's feature set better menu system Refinder ergonomics, etc You're then going to have a much better camera and I just don't really see Canon and of course, I'm not an expert on this But I don't really think that if you really look at Sony cameras and the innovation that we've seen at a rapid pace It wasn't so much in the mirrorless technology, right? It was them getting better at making cameras uh, so Canon makes great cameras. What happens when you put a mirrorless sensor? I don't think they're that behind on it. It's my suspicion I mean canon is the largest camera company in the world. They have the largest market share They know what they're doing and the way they've let people down so much hasn't been that they aren't able to keep up With innovation, even though it's a perception that people that they're not It's really that they're Gimping their cameras because they're used to being able to get away with that They like to differentiate their product line And they don't want to give it everything to you and I really think that's probably and again I'm going to say and be clear. I don't know for a fact, but the limitation of the m50 it not being able to do full 4k without cropping and all that I think that was a Choice by canon because they are going to release a better mirrorless camera that Won't have those limitations. So we see they can make a good mirrorless camera m50 is a good mirrorless camera. It just has purposeful limitations so Again, I'm genuinely asking people like how Do you how is it you think that canon is so behind if they release a mirrorless camera? Like that. It's just going to be so bad. I don't I don't really get it um In another advantage of canon They're going to release a mirrorless camera. That's I kind of mentioned it before but they're going to release a mirrorless camera That's probably going to be compatible with ef lenses so That's a huge advantage and so then you're going to have all these people who switched to sony who kept all their canon glasses Why would they stay at sony unless they really flop it and I just don't see it happening, but I guess everyone's free to speculate um In the meanwhile, I'm quietly Chuckling to myself until this video was made Laughing at all the people switching not really. I'm not laughing at them But I'm kind of like oh good canon lenses are going on sale online Because a lot of people are going to switch and then they're going to want to switch back And this whole switching back and forth it will never end if you Do it now you're probably going to be prone to wanting to do it in the future Cameras are always going to leapfrog each other or go back and forth. That's just how it's going to be um Another argument I kind of want to just challenge is the idea that oh a mirrorless camera will cannibalize canon sales I don't know. I wonder if people understand what cannibalize even means but um, so I don't really understand what their argument is. I'll be honest, but The idea that if they release a mirrorless camera that they're going to lose sales That doesn't make sense because argument everyone's making is that they're losing sales because they don't have a mirrorless camera So why would can't and not make a mirrorless camera? Because it's going to cannibalize their cameras. No, it'll be a different camera. It doesn't mean I mean if they're making a new camera that's at a similar price point To their slr cameras. How is it cannibalizing anything? um Their slr cameras, I understand if they made a camera That was only a thousand dollars and did everything the 1dx mark 2 did that would be cannibalizing their own sales, right? But the idea that if they essentially make let's say they make a 5d mirrorless How is that cannibalizing anything and the 5d is already a few years old? It doesn't make sense So I really think people need to really consider these arguments and ask what their motives are And if any of this is really that necessary Because look, I get it if canon releases like terrible products for another five years. It would be insane to Stay with canon, but they're not doing that. They're not going to do that. Let's be reasonable with our expectations I kind of want to just sum it up with this We get trapped as people to always want something new And this is what companies want. They want you to always think you need the new thing It's what apple does where they release a new iphone every year That's exactly the same but totally different. That's like basically what it is So it's the exact same product. It does pretty much the exact same things But they want you to feel like it does something fundamentally different And that's why they add some new feature that is really a gimmick or doesn't fundamentally change what your phone can do And sometimes I will concede There's a generation of product that does that right? But usually if you go every other cycle, that's when you're getting the real benefits of a new product But if you're upgrading like every year as soon as possible or every single new iteration You're usually not getting anything that will fundamentally change what you're able to do with that camera So really focus on your photography focus on getting good and this is actually the last point I I mentioned how being generous. I think maybe A new camera makes your work five percent better right five or ten percent better What do you think getting better at photography? Would result in A ton more than five percent better images Everyone has room to improve and again What you spend time thinking about is important. So if you're thinking about gear, you're not thinking about how you can improve as a photographer So i'm gonna leave it at that If you guys agree with me Please let me know If you have if you i'm interested in actual discourse So if you want to call me an idiot that don't waste your time It's not going to hurt my feelings But if you guys want to have an actual conversation, let me know I really hope there's other people that feel this way I'm having a hard time finding them on youtube that doesn't mean they don't exist It means youtube's not showing them to me. So if you agree if you feel differently or if you agree, please let me know