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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chosun Juan" data-source="post: 3812548" data-attributes="member: 92780">Yes, true, I remember an old competitive push program by Komatsu which translated into "encircle Caterpillar" (and not in a friendly way !)The old Japanese MITI fostered an elaborate series of Keiretsu and Zaibatsu. Many disparate groups were thrown together to work cooperatively and strategically for the national good.I am sure both Canon and Nikon have long term plans to carve out a profitable market space, but the frank admission by Canon's CEO was telling .....As a sustainably lineaged citizen of an at times blinkered and finite world, I just find it rather shortsighted that Canon with its mirrorless  R mount, and Nikon with its mirrorless Z mount would build two separate, incompatible, and virtually dimensionally identical  systems as the basis of their future camera business. Surely there are bigger fish to fry for the people's of the world, and a common mount would have not only been efficient resource and sustainability wise, but removed one of the barriers to growing the market as a whole (the large capital outlay by consumers). Of course the dichotomy for these historical giants, is that such a move would also remove one of the barriers that keeps consumers locked into one particular company over the other!   :cat:Sometimes there are times when you just have to move with the times ......Chosun   :gh:</blockquote>