DSLR is basically dead, but Sony has been the force-to-beat for mirrorless digital cameras. It's weird weird weird to hear them proclaim the camera market is pa

DSLR is basically dead, but Sony has been the force-to-beat for mirrorless digital cameras. It's weird weird weird to hear them proclaim the camera market is passing on, but maybe there's just some nuance about DSLR vs mirrorless that's lost here. Right now there's zero chance phones are going to kill off cameras. There's a ton of ultra-impressive computational-photography phones do that shooters dont, and progress in the camera realm has been ultra slow, but there's still such a marked & vast difference in quality that this seems facetious. The physics doesn't back the claims here. On the other hand: > Interestingly, Sony also expects the sensor size in "high-end model" phones to double by 2024. That'd be interesting to see! It feels like phones have just not had the will to improve their actual sensors, lately. Things don't seem to be going the right direction for cellphones. I'm still rocking a Galaxy S9, and it had a pretty ok sensor with a 2x optical zoom. But increasingly it feels like zoom or quality telephoto sensors are relegated to the flagship lines. I've had a hard time finding an upgrade for this phone I paid ~$150 for, because modern phones, except at the very high end, seem less competent, less versatile. The market keeps trying harder to push us towards more expensive devices, and, imo, there's a very real blowback with newer devices being increasingly less competitive than past devices.