> > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/02/21 Wed PM 02:53:02 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> > Subject: Re: 85mm f1.8 SMCT on ebay : $400+ > > > On Feb 21, 2007, at 6:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> You don't think the destruction is already in progress? > > Only for luddites and film addicts. ;-) > > > I believe SLR sales are at an all-time high. That's do of course to > > the transition to digital, but it certainly doesn't spell doom. > > A fellow subscriber to the DPReview.com mailing list was in town on > Sunday so we met in San Francisco and had a good afternoon's meander > through the Golden Gate Park/De Young Museum neighborhood. Both of us > noted that there are probably 3-4x as many SLR cameras in the hands > of tourists compared to compacts for the first time in 20 or more > years, far more than even a year ago. If that is the destruction of > the camera industry, well ...
That's one way of looking at it but companies have different expectations from their businesses, too. Those people have to keep buying SLRs for the market to remain bouyant. Think how many primary manufacturers (by which I mean whose main industry was photography, not a box shifter jumping on the new big thing) have gone out of business in the last five years. Choice is being dramatically eroded. If the market swings away from SLR use, we will for sure find prices rising substantially - maybe production ceasing altogether. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
