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Back from vacation
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And so what? In lack of solid statistical numbers (I know, "solid" and "statistical" don't belong in the same sentence...) all of us only can assume.

How about that: of this 95% another 95% would never have bought a real camera anyway. A lot of smartphone users takes pictures since it has become so damn simple to get rather good results. Close to none of them ever would have got a "complicated" camera for themselves.

Sure, smartphones have an impact on camera sales.
Also sure that a lot of entry level DSLRs came with a kit lens and serve the purpose of "something better than a point&shoot" camera.
But also sure: old people with cameras pass away and young people with an interest in taking pictures need cameras. And lenses. Maybe not more kit-lenses, but some lenses are short in supply. And then there's not only generation smartphone but also generation "in my next video I tell you how..." filling up YouTube's and Vimeo's harddrives.

We photographers tend to forget that some stories are better told by moving pictures. And I think for some manufacturers, sticking to stupid marekting concepts and delivering cheap tech for expensive prices ("Nikon?" why Nikon? aaaah, that's why...) it's sort of time to wake up and for others it might be better to manufacture other stuff. "Choices are good", I often read and I have to say lots of choice between 50 mm lenses don't make my day. It's no bad thing that some names disappear from the market.

And I also don't care about people singing the the final ode to system cameras. So far I still can buy more stuff than I ever could afford, not to mention use.
  


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Back from vacation - by Klaus - 06-17-2019, 10:12 AM
RE: Back from vacation - by JJ_SO - 06-17-2019, 10:50 PM
RE: Back from vacation - by Klaus - 06-17-2019, 11:08 PM
RE: Back from vacation - by thxbb12 - 06-18-2019, 07:03 AM
RE: Back from vacation - by Klaus - 06-18-2019, 10:00 AM
RE: Back from vacation - by Brightcolours - 06-18-2019, 10:18 AM
RE: Back from vacation - by Klaus - 06-18-2019, 11:13 AM
RE: Back from vacation - by miro - 06-19-2019, 09:04 AM
RE: Back from vacation - by thxbb12 - 06-19-2019, 09:59 AM
RE: Back from vacation - by JJ_SO - 06-19-2019, 10:45 AM
RE: Back from vacation - by Brightcolours - 06-19-2019, 10:49 AM

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