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"The best camera is the one you have with you" Right, which is why the low end consumer camera market has basically died. For average use, a phone is already
by ska 7y ago
"The best camera is the one you have with you"
Right, which is why the low end consumer camera market has basically died. For average use, a phone is already "good enough".
So another plausible path is that the damage has already been done, and what is left of the prosumer and pro level stuff will remain stable.
Note, I'm not saying that I think that is what will happen, I haven't thought about it much. But there is nothing in current tech development that suggests the phones will bridge that gap (to prosumer level image quality) any time soon...
- falcrist 7y agoI think you might be right. A lot of the damage already has been done... but the pro and prosumer camera markets are still shrinking pretty quickly. It's a concerning trend, which makes me hope that camera manufacturers get ahead of the trend by introducing features that I feel are lacking in "real" cameras.
- fock 7y agoWell, if you look at Nikon DSLRs: if you are shooting landscapes or portraits and are ok with the ergonomics of your gear/not printing _really_ big posters: your D750 is still state of the art (6 years old), so why buy new. What is a little bit disconcerting is, that everyone is jumping the full-frame wagon and not going the niche/mini-series way, they should probably go (this might lead to a disruptive change with a lot of knowledge lost in bankruptcies – which would be bad).