Has digital camera development hit the wall?

BG_CX3_DPREVIEW wrote:

Tom,

i don't think digicam development has stopped,

i think it actually has just begone, as cellphones and tablets are fishing in the same pool now.

Sensors are getting better, higher pixelcount, yet less and less noise,

new type of sensors pop up, different sizes (1, FF Sony), different types pop up(Monochrome)

software is getting better and better (most cams can now make jpegs with all known chemical bath failures included, such as bleach bypass, cross process),

the never stopping quest for the perfect camera has come to a same point as cellphones a few years ago;

nobody could believe a cellphone could be made, which combined phonefunction, GPS, computer, yet this is what a smartphone is.

One of these days, a few brands will make the perfect digital camera, it will be extremely expensive, and it will have a vast amount of buyers. And one or two years later, most will realise that this perfect camera simply can do so much, that you are actually using only like 5 to 10 % of its capabilities.

At that moment you will see people grasping back to more simple type of camera's, can't do it all, but you darn well know what it can.At that time my friend, evrybody will look at RICOH,as i really rthink Ricohs can do it exactly what is needed, or you can cofigure it to do so.

The only problem now with Ricoh is, its time to catch up with technology, every 6 months at most, a new generation is born, and the CX, PX, GXR are really using outdated hardware.