[popo]

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...

[Brightcolours]

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...

http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/...ra/s4zoom/

That's a start?

[borisbg]

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".

[popo]

http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/...ra/s4zoom/
That's a start?

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.