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Panasonic and Canaon have both done this before with LOG profiles.
They’ve been doing this bullshit with like the Timelapse app. It’s Sony garbage.
They see all the Sony owners paying for skins on the outside of the camera and figured they could get in the action with skins and DLC inside the camera I guess.
r/assholedesign
$150 for a magic lantern feature from 10 years ago lol
and so it starts. subscription camera ownership.
Saddest part is some idiots will pay the money.
Cool, now I know for a fact I will never bother with a Sony camera.
Good luck finding a company that doesnt sell certain features.
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How much for the grip warmer?
It’s a very niche feature for professionals. Why are people so worried about this. Most likely a patent troll wanting paid for the ability to offer the feature. People ask for it, so they’re giving an opportunity to pay for it…Did Sony charge for the A1 update too? Did I miss that?
Paid firmware updates are the death knell. But even beside that… $150?!?!
My prediction is that by 2030, people (not me) will be paying monthly just to use the camera they paid full price for. Subscription based mandatory operating software and or monthly shutter click limit. Or maybe they’ll require a 60$ yearly fee for using non Sony lenses lol. Excited to see the next generation of uniquely creative greed! God has abandoned us lol
We used thin painters tape on our studio monitors.
Back when I did school photos for a short stint we just had a small external monitor with the lines on it already. This was in 2006. It had to be custom made. Today you can probably do the same thing yourself for about the same as the as what Sony is asking, only you can get seven or eight inch monitor instead of the tiny 3 incher on the back of the camera. If I was taking a mass amount of portraits all day I’d think I’d rather use that money on a larger monitor instead of firmware upgrade.
I don’t think these companies understand that these sorts of money grabs are only going to hurt them in the long run. People are going to get so sick of it that governments well start to regulate it. Or a competitor will see it as an opportunity to steal your customer base.
I rarely use to see people looking for an alternative to photoshop, now I see it all the time. People are sick of companies trying to squeeze every last penny out of us. There are so many alternatives that are currently aiming for the more casual user. It’s only a matter of time before a successful attempt is made at pro and serious users.
Adobe Premiere seems to be losing users left and right. Davinci seems to be super ascendant right now.
People are sick of this crap.
Yeah I was like there must be a practical solution for a lot of situations too, but I understand the astonishment.
Seems like a reasonable charge for a very niche modification that less than 1% users would ever consider using.