Shocking graph shows the camera industry collapse is coming?

7 years 6 months ago #502278 by TGonzo
Granted I found this chart on one of those rumor websites.  Still it's alarming.  

What do you think?



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7 years 6 months ago - 7 years 6 months ago #502294 by effron
Collapse? Adjustment, maybe. Personally, I don't feel the need to upgrade every two years now, I think my gear will last a long time. There is part of the reason, oversaturation....

Why so serious?
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7 years 6 months ago #502303 by Stanly
2012 was the year for interchangeable lens cameras.   However these numbers don't add up.  $13 million for this year??  Sounds hard to believe.

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7 years 6 months ago #502311 by Kenya See
That's not $13 million in revenue, that is indicating 13 million cameras sold.


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7 years 6 months ago #502347 by Finn
:huh:   I don't think so 


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7 years 6 months ago #502359 by Dan Spade
Well if this had any merit, then this isn't good for the industry. 


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7 years 6 months ago #502454 by Scotty
Point and shoots are tapering off, that's about it though.

When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.

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7 years 6 months ago #502488 by effron
All are tapering off, we had a glut in the 00's, cameras are improved much since then. People are keeping the same gear longer...

Why so serious?
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7 years 6 months ago #502535 by Frost Photography

Scotty wrote: Point and shoots are tapering off, that's about it though.


True, but look at this chart, it's referencing DSLR's too.  The chart doesn't look right from a number's stand point.  Not at least IMO.  

"The quickest way to make money at photography is to sell your camera."
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7 years 6 months ago #502595 by Silver Fox
I don't care what this chart shows, the camera industry isn't going to collapse.  Perhaps point and shoot cameras.  NOT "camera industry".  Title of this article is misleading IMO.


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7 years 6 months ago #502721 by Joves
These dire predictions have always made me laugh when it comes to things dying out as a market. Do you remember when the computer gurus were stating that the PCI bus was going to be obsolete? Well it is still here, and has stayed while the new busses have died out. All that is happening is that people no longer have that I am cool because I shoot with a dslr now. Much of the boom in the dslr market was people who never would have had one, and to some extent never should of had one. But I am glad they did, because of the extra demand it made the manufacturers improve the tech faster, and most importantly the prices down. You have to look at what is happening in the market as a leveling off to where it should be, nothing more.


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7 years 6 months ago #502733 by Vahrenkamp
Puff piece to get readers.  Not buying the assumptions here. 


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7 years 6 months ago #502784 by GabrielMata
Two years ago I published an article about the market collapsing in 2017.

Smartphones are taking a huge segment of the market; the compact cameras segment.

This graphic looks overwhelming to the market. 

What do you think? Is photography dying as we know it?


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7 years 6 months ago #502786 by Screamin Scott
It's not dying, just evolving...

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7 years 6 months ago #502799 by loretomafotos
Evolving indeed... 

But in some moment, all cameras will be compact and the results from DSLRs cameras will be achieved with an smartphone.

Is this crazy or what?


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