Silverrails

Yes, how long will it be before DSLR Cameras become extinct. They say Sales are falling for Nikon & Canon, How long before only Mirrorless Camera will be the only choice in town. If we need repairs done, where will we go,...Japan? Thailand? Indonesia? We might as well move on to the new Technology, but how long will that last?
Well I am not sure what the Shutter Count is on my Nikon D3300, but I hope it is low.😳🙄🤔😣

Bill_de Loc: US

Live for today for tomorrow you may die.

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CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

If you buy a mirrorless camera, your existing DSLRs turn to dust. That should finish-off DSLRs in the next 3- to 5-years, before all the repair centers are closed ....

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

Approximately 14 years and 3 months from now.

Well, what kind of answer were you expecting? If the manufacturers don't know, how should we consumers have any clue? One thing I'm fairly certain - it won't be anytime soon. Not next year, not the year after. Too many people right now have a vested interest in DSLR cameras, lenses and related accessories. Not enough photographers are abandoning their DSLR cameras to replace it with a mirrorless camera, or are planning to do so anytime soon. Manufacturers are quite aware of that.

14 years 3 months may just turn out to be the correct answer. We'll have to wait and see.

Hereford Loc: Palm Coast, FL

I fail to see all the hoopla about mirrorless mindlessness. Yes there are a few advantages and a few disadvantages. I have been watching this trend with great interest. At the end of the day mirrorless is not really much smaller and lighter once you attach full frame fast telephoto glass to it. Most of the right handholds are too small for a good grip. I see nothing to propel me headlong into that chasm.

BillyP Loc: Cedar Point, NC

Let's see... you can still buy a film camera and a vinyl record turntable from B&H. I'm not quite sure!

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

Your D3300 is nearly 6 years old, and now discontinued. On an average of 10,000 shutter clicks per year, you would have 60,000 shutter clicks on your camera about now. That is 60% of its lifespan. Perhaps more. Then, when your shutter dies on you, and Nikon tells you they no longer have parts to replace the shutter. Then, you can buy the most technologically advanced mirrorless camera, and live happily ever after. Right now, DSLRs and mirrorless are coexisting. Eventually, there will be an end to DSLRs. We just don't know when? Manufacturers and consumer demand, will be the deciding factors.

rjaywallace Loc: Wisconsin

I continue to be happy with Fuji’s interchangeable APS-C X system, their terrific XF lenses and Fuji’s lightweight, versatile and highly creative compact cameras.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Online sources rate the D3300 model to a 100,000 shutter life. This 24MP body rivals the pixel resolution of the top-line 24MP professional models that didn't arrive to the D3X until 2009. Uploading a JPEG to this site should give you the current count: http://www.nikonshuttercount.com/

As long as your camera meets your needs at the current industry standard 24MP, there's nothing to worry about other than to continue to work on shooting technique and processing skills.

Rongnongno Loc: FL

Quite frankly most cameras will live longer than most of us so.... Who cares how long?

When I am feet under or flushed down the toilet I will not have a care in the world!

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

View cameras are never going to be totally gone. DSLRs are never going to be totally gone. Film cameras are never going to be totally gone. Mirrorless cameras are never going to be totally gone. One can still buy buggy whips, wagon wheels, vinyl records, and many other things that were very popular or necessary at one time - but still available. We may lose one or two, maybe more, camera manufactures like we have in the past. Cellphones will get zoom lenses. I will still own my film Hasselblad and Olympus cameras, load them up with film, and go shooting (abett, not often). I will shoot with my 4/3rds cameras and shoot with my future Galaxy S11+ (with zoom lens) when my 4/3rds is not close by. It is all good and it seems to be getting only better.

BlueMorel Loc: Southwest Michigan

None of my computers have a card slot for my floppy discs. Luckily I had the good sense to copy the files onto my backup external drive. I still have 5-1/2" floppies from a long-ago computer, and even cassettes from an old CoCo we had once upon a time. Now my new desktop doesn't even have a CD or DVD drive, though I still have my laptop for that. And then I think somewhere I have old beta videtapes somewhere.
Why, oh why don't they make computers that have drives for all that old media? And 50 years ago I took a programming class in senior year of HS in the UVa's Univac computer. I think I still have some of those old punchcards but no way to use them.
What will I do when my DSLR is obsolete? Oh, no! All will be lost!
Meanwhile, I will enjoy the tech toys I have, remember fondly the old ones long gone, and adapt if for some reason my current technology is outmoded.

Dean37 Loc: Fresno, CA

I'm not much of a photographer, despite the fact that I did get infected with GAS. I stopped with my Nikon F4, F5, D200 and D300. I have several other film and digital cameras. All work well, better than me, and I have no problem with the photos they give me. The camera that I really use more than all the others is my Nikon P7800 which gives me ease of transportation, quick to use, results that I like, for day to day use (more like month to month though it has been over 6 months now that I think about it). It doesn't need interchangeable lenses as it's equivalent f/2-4 28-200mm 7x zoom covers a very practical range, for me, down to a macro range of about 1" and with VR, and an after market lens cover that automatically opens when you turn it on. It has a bright Electronic View Finder and will shoot RAW if you want to. It's not perfect, but I don't recall ever shooting a perfect photo ever.

I've had cameras of other makes, but returned to Nikon (I really held on to all my Nikon gear), because of the "F" lens factor, f/1.2 50mm, f/1.4 85mm, f/2.8 28-70mm and f/2.8 80-200mm, in addition to at least 10-15 others. I also have and have used my Tamron f/5.6 200-500mm on a couple of rare occasions. The ability to use allmost all Nikon Lenses on most of my cameras makes the difference for me. I can't see going to the "Z" lens which can't be used by most of my cameras. The Z50 is interesting though.

You probably gathered that I see no need for a mirrorless camera for me. In fact I doubt that the mirrorless advantage can be used by more than a couple of thousands of photographers. I don't see a difference in the photographs in part because the printing process controls more of the resulting photo quality, to my thinking, than the difference between DSLRs and Mirrorless cameras. I can't afford a printer that costs upward of $2,000.00.

I have no problem with anyone who might prefer one over the other, it's their money.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Canon is still introducing DSLRS like the 90D and soon to come 1DX MIII. So it appears that both types will be with us for a while still.

TonyL Loc: Coventry, UK

One man's meat...... As they say!