Steve, I tracked down the WSJ article and read it yesterday. Stat's said the P&S digital market was in decline, suffering from phones getting better or 'good enough'. Samsung seems to be trying to carve out a new niche, something between phones and digital SLR's. Well good luck with that!!! Regards, Bob S.
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:49 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > on 2012-05-11 1:14 John Francis wrote >> >> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:53:30PM -0600, steve harley wrote: >>> >>> on 2012-05-10 14:25 John Francis wrote >>>> >>>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:13:20PM -0600, steve harley wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> * advances in electronic viewfinders >>>> >>>> >>>> Also only of interest to the niche market >>> >>> >>> i'm surprised you'd say that; i expect optical viewfinders to be in >>> the minority fairly soon, especially as the enhancements EVFs can >>> offer really start to shine; and EVFs separate from the camera body >>> will add to the appeal >> >> >> That's still a pretty small niche. Let's face it - by now, the >> camera in a mobile phone seems to be good enough for most people. > > > insofar as that is true, that segment of the market is irrelevant to camera > manufacturers; the inspiration for my post was Samsung realizing point and > shoots are a vanishing market, and by extension the "niche" may trend toward > more like the majority of the camera market > >> In any case, I fear still photography is rapidly becoming obsolete; > > > that's another matter; as an art i doubt it will > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
