Sell it now. Make yourself almost 2 grand. Come January 1st, they'll be sitting on the shelves at your local store and the guys there will probably give you some sort of extra credit to buy it then since the store will be so dead. Same thing happens with the iPhone every January. 

On 10/27/2017 at 3:48 PM, Howard said:

Well the HDR stuff is very useful but the biggest thing is having a high quality camera with you at all time. As far as replacements for dslr many of the 4/3rd cameras are already there. Then there is a new camera I saw in the WSJ a month or so ago that is about the size of a cell phone but maybe twice the width that has around a dozen small lenses and combines them with software to make 50+ megapixel images that combine wide angle and telephoto in one image that you can zoom in on with amazing quality. Still in beta at about $2,000 but that technology is amazing.

Like I said, having something decent on you at all times is useful. 

4/3ds are DSLR/MILC/EVIL They don't replace DSLRs becuase they are dslrs. Just smaller sensors. Physics says that sensor size matters with a number of optical effects. You want affordable wide angle glass with no distortion, you need big sensors. You want affordable zooms with good quality, you want smaller sensors.

The other camera you are referring to is the light L16. Which is going to crash and burn as cell phones already impinge on their basic operating concept, and the 50MP composite image is no longer impressive given the size of DSLR sensors at this point. SOny, pentax and others are already impinging on the noise reduction and color depth via multiple sensor exposures. It could bring cheap to the table, but you mention $2000... so...

 

On 10/29/2017 at 0:18 PM, Stonecoldchavez said:

I refuse to spend $1,000 for a cell phone. 

It is bad enough Apple crashed my 5S and made me have to buy a 7. It is all a scam. They force you to run updates, then crash your phone forcing you to have to upgrade. This has had to happen to others here; it is happened to several others I know. There should be so class-action lawsuit against Apple. 

S. 

Apple gives a crap about how well old models perform for about 3 years. They give a crap if it runs at all for about 4. Which is a damn site better than the android ecosystem where you are lucky to have access to security patches at all and most things are abandoned in 18 months or less. Mostly less. 

When I mentioned 4/3rds I was talking about the mirrorless cameras.  Some of them are very impressive indeed.  All of these things are tradeoffs between price, size, weight, function - there is no one right answer for everyone.  The biggest losers are stand alone point and shoot cameras - why would anyone carry one when many of the cellphones are actually better.

 

Not sure if cellphone will kill L16, not with all those lenses and the capability it has.  The top cell phones only have two lenses, and the camera does not use them at the same time.  Yes the $2,000 price tag is up there, but it is just a beta now.  Assuming they work the bugs out and start producing in volume one would expect the price to drop significantly.  Actually that price is fairly low when you compare it to what a good DSLR with a bunch of lenses costs (not talking about kit lenses).