What credibility are Nikon or Canon missing? Both companies have a level of brand recognition unrivaled in the Photography world...? Only in recent years has Sony and maybe Fujifilm developed more respect due to some of their advancements where Nikon and Canon have lacked.
Their DSLR's are market leaders still. Again, only in recent years have Mirrorless cameras have started to catch up with the DSLRs Nikon and Canon have been releasing. Based on current rumors, both Canon and Nikon are supposedly working on their first serious Mirrorless cameras to compete with the likes of Sony's A7 series...
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Personally, I would avoid any camera that had Google integration built in. Part of the reason I still carry around a DSLR today is because I like knowing that the photos on my camera, and then stored on a local HDD at my house. I don't think I'm alone in this thought either. Computational Photography is cool and all, but I don't need to provide all my photos into a server farm to be analyzed.
Lots of stuff when you start thinking about it. Automation, as an example. Say I want my own custom metering algorithm - I can't currently upload that to my camera and try it out.
Take a look at what you can do when you can program your phone:
A phone's sensor is much worse than in Nikon/Canon. Yet if I want to reproduce the results in that post it's a fair amount of manual work to do so on a DSLR.
Say I want to shoot a photo of a tourist spot, but with no people in the photo. A standard way is to take several shots seconds apart, and then on the PC merge them using the median. All the people disappear. Why can't I program my DSLR to take 20 photos every 5 seconds and do that computation, and discard the 20 images and just keep the processed one?
Once you start thinking this way, you suddenly realize you're holding a product whose interface resembles something from 1980's DOS.
Good points, but the market is dying for DSLRs. I wince each time I use mine for the terrible wifi capability, the awful OS, etc. Why can't it be modernised? Because Canon and Nikon won't do it.
My Canon M5's WiFi actually "just works" and does what you want : view and download images to the phone in the field. It also uses the phone's GPS to geotag images. This is with an Android phone -- the workflow isn't as smooth with iOS apparently because Apple doesn't allow apps to drive the WiFi association. The phone maintains a BT connection to the camera and uses that as a side channel by which it coordinates an on-demand WiFi association.
Previous generations were not so easy to use -- my 6D does work but lacks the auto-connect via BT feature. Presumably the 6D2 has that though.
Its dying because the mechanical mirror in the DLSRs is not needed anymore with todays tech. So mirrorless cameras will make the game once ppl learn to not miss the click sound. They will simply get replaced with less complex and cheaper cameras.
Optical viewfinders are still better. And I say that as someone who has a Canon DSLR but shoots more with a Fujifilm X-E3 because it's a lot smaller and lighter. The day will certainly come when electronic viewfinders become dominant but there are still advantages to mirrors today.
Optical viewfinders are great, but the tiny ones in consumer DSLRs are no fun compared to full-frame ones. Moving from a full-frame optical viewfinder in my film camera to the much smaller viewfinder in an APS-C DSLR was painful.
It's not necessarily the sensor size. I never liked the Canon Rebel viewfinders but, as I recall, the higher end APS-C models were fine. (Personally, I didn't go to DSLRs before full-frame was relatively affordable and have a 5D MarkIII today.)
Their DSLR's are market leaders still. Again, only in recent years have Mirrorless cameras have started to catch up with the DSLRs Nikon and Canon have been releasing. Based on current rumors, both Canon and Nikon are supposedly working on their first serious Mirrorless cameras to compete with the likes of Sony's A7 series...
EDIT: Personally, I would avoid any camera that had Google integration built in. Part of the reason I still carry around a DSLR today is because I like knowing that the photos on my camera, and then stored on a local HDD at my house. I don't think I'm alone in this thought either. Computational Photography is cool and all, but I don't need to provide all my photos into a server farm to be analyzed.