I saw the title of this thread, and thought it was going to be about Alexander Calder, and was surprised there were so many pages, then I clicked on it. Now I get it.
Phones.
Here are a couple of grim projections surfacing in the last couple of days, for the camera market from of a very recent interview with Canon's president Fujio Mitarai for the Japanese website Nikkei:
Canon sees the market for digital cameras shrinking rapidly in the future
The market for digital cameras could shrink by about 50% in the next two years.
Two quotes (Google translation):
"In our company cameras have declined at around 10% a year (sales volume) in the past few years (combined with single lens reflex and mirrorless) The world market for interchangeable lens cameras is around 10 million, but decreased the mirrorless product is growing, but it is a replacement with a single lens reflex, it is not adding to the market as a whole "
"People usually shoot with smartphones. The digital camera market will keep falling for about 2 years, but professional and high amateur (advanced) amateurs use about 5 to 6 million units. Finally it will hit the bottom. "
Relevant to a recent thread here, I noticed he didn’t say that Canon was going to be making a new film camera “due to surging demand among young people” or anything along those lines. Just saying.
Anyway. Phones. Interesting thread here, even if it didn’t have any of the pictures of nice mobiles I was looking for.
Helen, hope you get your M6 and your mojo back soon. Keep taking pictures everybody, however.
Larry
