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EF lenses and the Mirrorless future

Started Sep 15, 2016 | Polls thread
Bob Atwell Regular Member • Posts: 213
Re: EF lenses and the Mirrorless future

MitchAlsup wrote:

Prosumer and professional dSLRs will go on for a long while (30+ years).

The question is whether consumer dSLRs have a future. That question does not revolve around lenses or lower end dSLRs--it revolves around cell phones. What percentage of the public is dissatisfied with cellphone snap shots and video. It is from tht base that real cameras will find their market.

Mitch,

I agree with you.  However, dSLR and mirrorless camera users are always going to be a much smaller subset of camera users relative to cameraphone users.  Our phones can now replace most point and shoot digital cameras.  The sensor sizes are sometimes comparable and thus the image quality is often comparable.  Moreover, we take our phones with us most times and having a camera with you at the right time and place is half the battle.  I suspect that it will be a long time before the quality of our SLRs is replaced by cell phones but I also accept that under ideal lighting conditions our cell phone cameras can produce images that are amazingly good enough for most people. Photographers will al ways want the best tool for the images that they are taking or more correctly creating.  In the future maybe a cell phone will come close to an SLR sized sensors quality but until then I still think the market for cameras will remain strong.

Thanks for your insights.

Bob

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