CHG_CANON wrote:
We imagine improving our photography, but we cling to our old DSLRs.
As you said, it's all in our imagination.
We could buy the latest and greatest, and maybe we'd still be there, imagining improving our photography.
Then we'd be "clinging to our old non-DSLRs that take only 2-D and 3-D imagery...."
But it's the imagination and the mindset that counts here, way more than the machinery, at this point.
In the field of 2-D imagery, the next best thing is? That yields a 2-D image that's the next generation away?
Analog to digital to ???
When that step comes, then all of these will be obsolete.
Right now we've had one step only - analog to digital.
And that progress has been mainly in the delivery, not as much in the capture side of things.
Prove it? Easy.
Imagine a digital mirrorless image, flawless 600MB, any generation camera you want to.
And no Internet, just prints only.
Done.
So it's the delivery that's been the real game-changer here.
And the biggest population on the planet doesn't seem to want to go there. For political reasons, not technical ones. For them, for personal reasons, analog photography is still king.
Now the camera industry will say different things, mainly to sell cameras.
But as everybody here says, quite rightly, that the buyers have shrunk to insignificant amounts, to go further than that would be to say that in our future everybody will have a smart phone with a camera and be able to take gallery quality photos with those cameras.
Probably true.
But will that be the only camera they own and maintain and use?
That's like saying all music will be electronic and digital.