Your reasoning falls short. If someone asks you to send him a picture of your dog, desk, house, car or where you just are to have a coffee, the most convenient and sufficient thing to use is a smartphone - which btw. doesn't need a mirror to be convenient and sufficient.
Earlier days, people had to buy camera to just document their hobby, be it gardening, stamp-collecting, football - whatever. This and lot more reasons to buy photographic devices else than a smartphone are gone. And if today someone wants a "better" camera (usually more reach, less grainy pictures, better colours, manual mode / dials), there's not much reasons left to bite the DSLR apple.
The fact that so many smartphones are around is affecting more parts of life and bites a big chunk out of many pies: Be it PCs, video cameras, wearable music players, dictionaries, remote controls and a lot more stuff I simply don't realize because I use a dumbphone and leave smartphones to the needy ones. I had a pre smartphone life and I still have one without it although I see the benefits and the growing number of use-cases. Quantities of movie recorders compared to CCTV, smartphones, PC webcams, action-cameras? You get the picture. Or the film...
Smartphone aside: In your post, I only see the reason to discredit mirrorless system cameras from the perspective of someone who hasn't used them. And still thinks DLSR are the only serious type of "real camera". Their production numbers will never reach the level of 2010 - and even the 2016 one is gone - forever. If you're such a fan of numbers, how about a 2017 statistics? In 2016, 17 months ago, a lot of current cameras just were not available: No GFX 50 S; X-T 2 was just new, Sony had overheating problems and today has a better AF than most DLSRs (face-detection, coverage, number of focus points and how to select them). The new X-T100 is a tempting offer for around 600,- Significantly new models in DSLR world? Which one is not a repetition of former models, a bit higher numbers on the spec sheet? Yeah, Pentax still tries, but then why is nearly nobody buying a K1?
Ask for the future of DSLR, that's more interesting than bashing mirrorless systems. Contrary to DLSR, the number or sold mirrorless units is not diminishing.
Oh, and Statistics of 2017 camera sales, published by Photographylife.com you find some numbers for 2017. DSLR going slightly lower, mirrorless interchangeable lens systems are increasing. Not breathtakingly or competing to smartphones, but still... a little hint for their future one might recognize.
Earlier days, people had to buy camera to just document their hobby, be it gardening, stamp-collecting, football - whatever. This and lot more reasons to buy photographic devices else than a smartphone are gone. And if today someone wants a "better" camera (usually more reach, less grainy pictures, better colours, manual mode / dials), there's not much reasons left to bite the DSLR apple.
The fact that so many smartphones are around is affecting more parts of life and bites a big chunk out of many pies: Be it PCs, video cameras, wearable music players, dictionaries, remote controls and a lot more stuff I simply don't realize because I use a dumbphone and leave smartphones to the needy ones. I had a pre smartphone life and I still have one without it although I see the benefits and the growing number of use-cases. Quantities of movie recorders compared to CCTV, smartphones, PC webcams, action-cameras? You get the picture. Or the film...
Smartphone aside: In your post, I only see the reason to discredit mirrorless system cameras from the perspective of someone who hasn't used them. And still thinks DLSR are the only serious type of "real camera". Their production numbers will never reach the level of 2010 - and even the 2016 one is gone - forever. If you're such a fan of numbers, how about a 2017 statistics? In 2016, 17 months ago, a lot of current cameras just were not available: No GFX 50 S; X-T 2 was just new, Sony had overheating problems and today has a better AF than most DLSRs (face-detection, coverage, number of focus points and how to select them). The new X-T100 is a tempting offer for around 600,- Significantly new models in DSLR world? Which one is not a repetition of former models, a bit higher numbers on the spec sheet? Yeah, Pentax still tries, but then why is nearly nobody buying a K1?
Ask for the future of DSLR, that's more interesting than bashing mirrorless systems. Contrary to DLSR, the number or sold mirrorless units is not diminishing.
Oh, and Statistics of 2017 camera sales, published by Photographylife.com you find some numbers for 2017. DSLR going slightly lower, mirrorless interchangeable lens systems are increasing. Not breathtakingly or competing to smartphones, but still... a little hint for their future one might recognize.