02-25-2015, 04:50 PM
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...
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...