olyflyer
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I think you made an editorial mistake, the below is your comment isn't it?
FYI, the Nokia N95 8GB is not $49 phone, at least not where I live. If you can get it for $49 brand new then I'd like you to ship a few to me, I am prepared to pay well over that for each one of them...
Yes, you can buy mobile phones here in Sweden for 10% of the price of my phone. Of course, then you will get the phone function only, and as it happens, I need some more for my work. Still, the other functions are strong compromises, an external GPS antenna works much better and faster, and the cheapest P&S takes better pictures, even if the phone has a real 5MP camera and a Carl Zeiss lens with real auto focus and many features, like a real camera.
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The majority has no DSLR at all, so maybe if I ask the majority "Why don't you use the video function which is available in your camera?" they will answer, "Because it's a nice feature, but I don't need it, I just want to take still images."
OK, so because you don't want to use or buy a bag and have too small pockets or bags, I should pay for the development of function which are not used or needed by me? How come?
Looking back five years, many have predicted EVF will replace OVF. I don't see it happening. Looking back five years many predicted miniaturisation in everything, cell phones, cameras and everything. I don't see that happening, in fact the opposite, phones are getting larger and cameras don’t get much smaller. Looking back five-ten years, many have predicted computer power will double every 4-6 months. Well, having worked with high tech computing the last 30 years, I tell you, I don't see that happening either.
Of course, neither you nor I know what is going to happen in five years, but your categorical statement that "in 5 years every digital camera will have them" is I am sure very wrong, regardless how that extrapolation is done. Maybe one day it will be true, but five years is just too near.
My guess is that the next two-three years will go away without other then cost saving developments, and huge marketing resources will be spent on selling and market positioning. Some companies will go down and disappear, as Minolta did a few years ago, others will go through a purification process. I think the recession within the photo industry is still ahead of us, so I don't expect any huge changes in technology. OVF will still be the main viewfinder of DSLRs and only a few DSLRs will offer video, which is worth having. How the storage will be solved in those cameras, I don't know, but my guess is it will be through external memory cards.
Of course, as usual, I can be wrong.
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