A fantastic affordable camera you can still buy new from eBay

Tom Caldwell wrote

(Joking)

GM5+, sigh .... why don’t they make the cameras that the users really want and not the ones that sell well on the market? This is one of life’s little conundrums ....

The huge problem is the uncharted waters that the industry is now encountering. The smartphone has totally destroyed the compact camera market and threatens ever higher spec models. So makers are retreating to the high end of the market where smartphones cannot compete at the moment and they know that they will sell less cameras so each one has to create a greater profit.

Though there is faint hope, for instance my adult daughter has finally realised how crappy smartphones are for photography and has bought an ambitious bridge camera and is having enormous fun.

Maybe it is because those that know that they have a good one tend to keep it and not upgrade.

Comes a point when something is good enough, so why change? For maybe the last 5 or so years just about all cameras have been good enough, so that also will also explain some of the camera sales slowdown.

The situation is really dire, email in this morning Digidirect with 20% off on some Olympus lenses and bodies, plus other brands as well. Usually that only happens at 10% and only at other times of the year. I suspect that we will see a rush of bricks and mortar stores closing this year.

So take advantage of sales and make sure that you have all that you really need to get through the next few years.

Plus, stop waiting for GM5 MK2.

Regards......... Guy