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> The iPhone isn’t intended to compete with DSLRs because it’s literally a phone that fits in your pocket. I'm not sure how you measure "intent", but I think t

> The iPhone isn’t intended to compete with DSLRs because it’s literally a phone that fits in your pocket. I'm not sure how you measure "intent", but I think there's fairly strong evidence that smartphone cameras have harmed the DSRL market. Sales are about half of what they were in 2008. This isn't just people moving to mirrorless either. Sales of all camera formats are down. Smartphones basically killed the market for compact cameras, whose sales today are down about 90% in the same timeframe.

bitcurious 5y ago
The iPhone certainly didn’t help, but just as important is the fact that progress has slowed. Remember the digital camera of 2000 vs 2010, and then 2010 vs 2020. I can take excellent photos with a 10 year old digital camera, and dreadful ones with a 20 year old.
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b9a2cab5 5y ago
Smartphones killed the market for low end compact cameras, because the average consumer uses their phone instead of a shitty $200 entry level camera. The high end stuff is doing well with content creators and professionals. You can see this in the move upmarket of things like Sony A6600 ($1400 APS-C camera) and RX100 series ($1300 compact camera) that are aimed at creators in the attention economy. I think from here on we'll see smartphone needs driving sensor development, but that doesn't mean the camera market is dead.
- munificent 5y ago
  > The high end stuff is doing well with content creators and professionals. The high end stuff keeps getting better, just like every technology keeps getting better, but I don't know if it's "doing well" in the sense that overall sales of high end camera gear are increasing. As far as I can tell, that entire market segment is shrinking. I'm not saying it's dead or even dying, but I do think it's getting smaller.

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> The iPhone isn’t intended to compete with DSLRs because it’s literally a phone that fits in your pocket. I'm not sure how you measure "intent", but I think t

by munificent 5y ago

bitcurious 5y ago
The iPhone certainly didn’t help, but just as important is the fact that progress has slowed. Remember the digital camera of 2000 vs 2010, and then 2010 vs 2020. I can take excellent photos with a 10 year old digital camera, and dreadful ones with a 20 year old.
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b9a2cab5 5y ago
Smartphones killed the market for low end compact cameras, because the average consumer uses their phone instead of a shitty $200 entry level camera. The high end stuff is doing well with content creators and professionals. You can see this in the move upmarket of things like Sony A6600 ($1400 APS-C camera) and RX100 series ($1300 compact camera) that are aimed at creators in the attention economy. I think from here on we'll see smartphone needs driving sensor development, but that doesn't mean the camera market is dead.
- munificent 5y ago
  > The high end stuff is doing well with content creators and professionals. The high end stuff keeps getting better, just like every technology keeps getting better, but I don't know if it's "doing well" in the sense that overall sales of high end camera gear are increasing. As far as I can tell, that entire market segment is shrinking. I'm not saying it's dead or even dying, but I do think it's getting smaller.