Hogan's Photokina: DX/APS-C sure looks forelorn.

+1 (Again)

It's already happening, I mean, the slow demise of the "conventional" camera: our Office Max store no longer stocks ANY digital cameras (you have to go to their website to buy one), never mind they still stock a half-aisle of landline telephones few even buy. Sears Robuck stopped selling film in their stores years before Kodak's announcement they'll be largely exiting the film business.

When I mentioned the absence of ALL digital cameras to the pimply-faced Office Max employee, he simply reached for his smartphone and asked me why anyone in the world would even want or need a digital camera when his smartphone can take pictures and shoot video between phone calls and texts.

Kodak: exiting the consumer imaging business.
Contax: extinct.
Yashica: extinct.
Agfa: extinct.
Chinon: extinct.
Bronica: extinct.
Konica-Minolta: exited the camera business.
Ritz Camera: Closing their doors.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong on that list, but the point is, no one in the imaging business is safe with the old tried-and-true business models. I'd like to see Canon and Nikon continue making crop-sensor cameras, but if they think they're going to carry the lion's share of the imaging market with full-frame and mirrorless cameras while not even adequately addressing standardized wireless connectivity, they have a rough road ahead of them. The Office Max employee represents a TIDAL WAVE of people who want more than just a "camera".