The same way Ferrari can keep producing motorcars that can’t even keep a battery charge worth a flip. You’d think by 2015 they’d have a better solution than a battery conditioner (tender).
That said, this 50mp Canon is firmly in MF territory; definitely as a strong alternative to renting MF camera, back, lenses, renter’s insurance, deposits, travel, shipping time, shipping costs, etc.. This Canon can be a money saver on many fronts for many photographers. For many others, the reason to consider MF systems over a camera like the Canon, is rapidly shrinking as more photographers/shops look at cost/performance (as in income) ratio.
Aside from some of the mechanical advantages associated with some MF systems (much higher sync speed, larger format, etc), the image quality advantage in a practical sense (which is concerned mostly with financial performance) has been reduced to a quibble ** as far as most applications are concerned**. MF is still my favorite format but… (chuckle)
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.