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Statistics from the German system camera market - popo - 02-25-2015
Interesting stuff there. I do kinda wish we could also see more years into the 2000's as I do wonder what impact, if any, did the onset of the 2008-ish financial meltdown had. Also I'd have to guess the German market is more representative to most of us than the Japan figures are.
I do agree for less demanding stuff, mirrorless is arguably "good enough" for a lot of things for some time now. As I'm firmly in the wildlife camp, I still find it hard to imagine mirrorless taking that space for a long time, but not saying it can't happen. At 300mm+ (actual FL) lens on APS-C isn't going to be usefully different in size between mirrorless and mirrored systems, and the latter is here already and far superior in handling.
I think some compact cameras can survive in their own niche. The lowest cost ones may have been killed by phones, but I think ones like travel zooms can survive. No one in the phone world seems brave enough to make a thicker phone which could hold such a lens assembly, even though they do thin phablets. Doesn't add up to me.
Joju's comments on DSLRs being dinosaurs seems to apply equally to mirrorless to me...
Statistics from the German system camera market - Brightcolours - 02-25-2015
Quote:Interesting stuff there. I do kinda wish we could also see more years into the 2000's as I do wonder what impact, if any, did the onset of the 2008-ish financial meltdown had. Also I'd have to guess the German market is more representative to most of us than the Japan figures are.http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxycamera/s4zoom/
I do agree for less demanding stuff, mirrorless is arguably "good enough" for a lot of things for some time now. As I'm firmly in the wildlife camp, I still find it hard to imagine mirrorless taking that space for a long time, but not saying it can't happen. At 300mm+ (actual FL) lens on APS-C isn't going to be usefully different in size between mirrorless and mirrored systems, and the latter is here already and far superior in handling.
I think some compact cameras can survive in their own niche. The lowest cost ones may have been killed by phones, but I think ones like travel zooms can survive. No one in the phone world seems brave enough to make a thicker phone which could hold such a lens assembly, even though they do thin phablets. Doesn't add up to me.
Joju's comments on DSLRs being dinosaurs seems to apply equally to mirrorless to me...
That's a start?
Statistics from the German system camera market - borisbg - 02-26-2015
To me market correction has been on the horizon for a while, but now it is in effect. Until several months ago the question was "when", now is "how severe it will be".
Statistics from the German system camera market - popo - 02-26-2015
Quote:http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxycamera/s4zoom/Now you mention it I might have seen that before, and totally forgot about it. Still, it is priced about where travelzoom compacts exist so could be an option if it doesn't fail as a smartphone. I have been debating replacing my phone recently since it appears to have a hardware unreliability growing.
That's a start?