Low Budget Dave wrote:
I am just saying that a bunch of people decide every month to leave their dedicated camera at home and just take their pictures of sunsets (or dogs or beachwear or whatever) with their cell phone.
Just thinking about 2 family weddings I attended this past year. The only cameras I noticed was the paid photographers. Everyone else used there cell phones. Not one person at either wedding had a camera with them, including me. This was not always the case.
Just a few years back, I went to a wedding reception and they had those cheap throwaway camera's at every table and asked people to take pictures and turn them into so they could get as many pics as they could of the reception. Many people, including me, had their own camera's with them as well. No more. This, regardless of statistics (although stats certainly bear this out) show that while real cameras may still be sold, there use has tumbled drastically among the populace. In other words, look closely before buying stock in any DSLR camera company.
Also, while I'm at it, billnikon seems to be out of touch with what cell phone cameras can do these days.
For example, In 2016 before I used my cell camera, my daughter had me take a couple pics with her phone. I guess I held the "button" down a second or so and the she had 2 sets of 30 pictures in burst mode.... She laughed her butt off that I'd do something so "dumb". The other thing I always yelled at my kids for takings pics w/o the flash in dim lighting.... wrong again, those damn things take low light pictures surprisingly well, with no effort. My DSLR does better with the flash than my cell, but it takes effort and all that rot.
Are they better than a DSLR, well yeah, for lots of things, not so much for a few things. For the general populace that used to carry around cameras at parties, picnics, weddings, and so on, cameras are finished, done, kaput. For the professional that sells his work or hobbyist that likes to take pictures of bees, flowers, birds, sunsets and such, "real" cameras will be there for a good while, or forever, whichever comes first.
I'd still think twice on stock purchases....