sblitz Posted June 8, 2012 Share #1 Â Posted June 8, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) with all the chatter regarding what leica should and should not introduce next, i thought i would confuse the issue with some facts -- at least facts from the us. based on a private group that my firm subscribes to for consumer electronic sales, sales of digital point and shoot cameras are down 19% may v may, and have been trending down on a y/y basis for some time. sales of detachable lens cameras are up 32.1% may vs may. in fact, last year detachable lens camera sales were 76% of p&s sales, this years they are 25% greater. Â most people posting here have made note that the lower end is getting cannibalized by the camera phone. appears to be true. there is, however, still a demand for a separate camera only the demand is apparently for something a bit more sophisticated. Â none of this info is a state secret, so i would suspect that leica, along with most camera makers, are going to give the people what they want. only leica will be giving it to the 1% at a sufficient markup. quality adjusted, a bargain at any price of course.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted June 8, 2012 Posted June 8, 2012 Hi sblitz, Take a look here camera sales in us -- p&s down, detachable lens up. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
lars_bergquist Posted June 9, 2012 Share #2 Â Posted June 9, 2012 That agrees with the info I have direct from the market. I have in fact heard of an even faster decline. In the near future, only people who are serious about their pictures will own a camera. Â The old man from the Kodachrome Age. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenPatterson Posted June 9, 2012 Share #3 Â Posted June 9, 2012 In the near future, only people who are serious about their pictures will own a camera. Â Wonderful, just wonderful. So now every venue around the world will be filled with mindless tourist holding billboard sized iPads above their heads to get an unobstructed shot. I was amazed when visiting Mexico earlier this year at how many people feel the iPad is the perfect camera for travel, and have no qualms about holding them up like fans at a sporting event or political rally. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
algrove Posted June 9, 2012 Share #4 Â Posted June 9, 2012 Can you imagine what the South rim of the Grand Canyon must look like from now until mid September? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_bergquist Posted June 9, 2012 Share #5 Â Posted June 9, 2012 Most people don't take pictures even to look at them later, except maybe to verify that they have taken it. Â I have taken a picture, therefore I have been there, therefore I exist. Â The old man from the Kodachrome Age Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_bergquist Posted June 9, 2012 Share #6 Â Posted June 9, 2012 Can you imagine what the South rim of the Grand Canyon must look like from now until mid September? Â A naive but intelligent extraterrestrial observer would conclude that this was some kind of religious rite. He would have been right. Â The old man from the Kodachrome Age Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ho_co Posted June 9, 2012 Share #7 Â Posted June 9, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) I shot this with M6 in 2005 as dawn rose on one of Chinese Buddhism's 7 most holy mountains. QED. Â (Compacts then. Hate to think what the scene would be today with iPads.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill W Posted June 10, 2012 Share #8 Â Posted June 10, 2012 Can you imagine what the South rim of the Grand Canyon must look like from now until mid September? Sunrise would seem a lot earlier. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Messsucherkamera Posted June 10, 2012 Share #9 Â Posted June 10, 2012 Outstanding image, ho_co (even with the herd of schmendricks in the shot). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sblitz Posted June 12, 2012 Author Share #10 Â Posted June 12, 2012 "herd of schmendricks" -- not necessarily only found in asia, their migrating routes cover the globe Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darylgo Posted June 12, 2012 Share #11 Â Posted June 12, 2012 Good to hear that ipads are used for more than solitaire. An ipad in the wild is a newbie user, subsequently left at home and a new phone taking it's place. The quality of the phone is to be commended, the size of a disk camera and slightly better quality. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Messsucherkamera Posted June 13, 2012 Share #12 Â Posted June 13, 2012 "herd of schmendricks" -- not necessarily only found in asia, their migrating routes cover the globe Unfortunately you are correct. The proliferation of schmendricks is an ongoing problem for serious photographers who seek schmendrick free landscape images. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_bergquist Posted June 13, 2012 Share #13  Posted June 13, 2012 A Question of Zoological Taxonomy  You too have probably noted the Bergquist Effect: Every time you raise your camera to your eye, one or several persons materialize at 45° to the left or right of you, out of an alternative universe, and hurl themselves into your image. I am pretty clear about the physics of it, but the zoology is less clear: Are these beings schmendricks?  The old man from the Einstein Age Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sblitz Posted June 13, 2012 Author Share #14 Â Posted June 13, 2012 yes, but thanks to the evolution of chimpings, no longer, after a long and expensive journey to far off and beautiful vista does one come home and find a collection of photos of schmendricks instead of landscape. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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