“DSLR gear, no idea”: Sony goes on the offensive against camera enthusiasts
Sony Australia has created a video campaign “to ‘out’ those with DSLR gear and no idea”, subtly suggesting they would be better served with one of the company’s mirrorless compact cameras rather than a full-size DSLR.
The videos, available on YouTube, use a series of stereotypes that paint a wide variety of casual photographers in a foolish light. The videos are clearly light-hearted, but go some way to marginalising enthusiastic camera users that have spent thousands of dollars on their purchases.
A long-haired, vest-and-tie-wearing photographer waxes lyrical about the quality of his brand-unnamed-but-we-all-know-it’s-a-Canon telephoto lens, a fashionably-dressed young lady leans over a flower for a macro shot with a large DSLR, and a bulky backpack-toting tourist walks through a yum cha restaurant annoying people with close-up flash photographs:
Comments and like/dislike statistics are disabled on the videos, although the main video has had over 100,000 views in the last two days. A guest commenter on PetaPixel wrote: “pretty coward [sic] of Sony to disable comments on YouTube and not mentioning anywhere that those videos are made by them.”
The videos don’t explicitly mention Sony at any point, with the only indication being a link in the videos’ description, saying “Find out more: http://www.sony.com.au/productcategory/nex-camera”. The Sony NEX product website didn’t mention the video series by the time of publication.
There is no obvious advertisement of the Sony NEX cameras’ supposedly more appropriate feature-set in the video campaign, and no mention of whether buyers of Sony’s more traditional DSLR-style ‘SLT’ cameras are guilty of the same offences.
Another PetaPixel commenter said that the videos were offensive: “That's a great way to alienate your customers. Well done Sony for making me never want to associate with you.”
Commenter ‘mansgame’ sums up his feelings: “Funny...except Sony makes DSLRs too and they are behind everybody else and will be forever. If the time comes when wedding photographers have little NEX cameras... instead of DSLRs then Sony can talk.”
Professional photographer Jack Chauvel told PC World that it was ironic that such an ad would come from a company like Sony: “It’s funny, because the people who are most likely to have no idea and splash out on gear are those who are going to buy the overpriced Sony A system or NEX series of cameras.”
Only a few years ago, Sony’s Alpha line-up of digital SLRs were largely regarded as the go-to for enthusiastic camera buyers with more money than sense — with less market penetration than Nikon or Canon, Sony digital SLRs were sold at generally higher prices and traded on the Sony brand name that otherwise-uneducated buyers would associate with premium quality and features.
These situations are obvious exaggerations of what enthusiastic amateur photographers do — there’s always a situation where someone looks slightly goofy just because they are passionate about taking a nice picture. Sony risks alienating exactly the buyers it is trying to target with this parody.
This isn’t all you’ll see from Sony — in an email, PC World was told to “watch out for more to come on this campaign next week.”
前一陣子看到了國外網站 DSLR No Idea 的廣告，裡面導演四處去找拿著單眼的人，然後測試他們是否會用單眼，然後發現許多人是用 AUTO 在照相，不但不會用大多的相機功能， DSLR 是甚麼簡寫也不知道。
別說那是廣告，我周圍不少人真的是這樣，有單眼，但不會用。
但這不是一種罪！
我知道不少人對單眼用戶其實不太會用很感冒，但先不要這樣去想，任何一種負面、嘲弄的情緒與行為都只會讓事情變得更糟糕。單眼可以是一種時尚配件，不需要專注於比賽等級的作品創作。不知道如何靈活應用單眼，也一樣可以拍出好照片，因為除了技術，還有構圖與生活取材、後製等其他方法。
拿著單眼，有時是對自己一種期許。也許現在只會用AUTO拍照，但是有機會學習其他功能如閃燈，TV（快門先決）。但假設因為只會用 AUTO而放棄，則變成沒有機會了。沒人天生就是大師，所以也不需要特別去諷刺，如同沒人會嘲笑一個剛學走路的嬰兒不會跳一樣。
假設看到親友有人有單眼但不會用，我比較推薦去誘導而不是去指出問題。因為人其實很脆弱。嘲笑他，指導人有時雖然是好意，但反而會適得其反。這裡也分享一下我是如何去做的。
新手來說，只要借他的相機或是手機玩，稱讚他的相機很棒，然後拍出幾張他可能會喜歡但沒想過的構圖還他即可。重點是「讚美」，讓他認為有了一台好的相機是拍出美麗照片的開始。當然我們都知道學攝影是一條無止盡的路，但別去抹殺新手剛開始學攝影的心。
參考資料：
ePrice資訊網
http://www.eprice.com.tw/dc/talk/1433/4798074/1/
PC world網
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/441978/_dslr_gear_no_idea_sony_goes_offensive_against_camera_enthusiasts/
商業週刊
http://www.businessweekly.com.tw/KBlogArticle.aspx?id=3764&path=h
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