Originally posted by Pål Jensen Where is the data for this? Canon sell 7 million DSLR's a year. Less than 200 000 are FF. Ie more and more APS every day; not less. If I'm not mistaken they yearly growth is between 15-30%.
We had the above prediction three years ago if not longer. The opposite have happened; Canons fortune are the entry level models and the 7D. Mirrorless have had no impact on Canon (or Nikon) DSLR sales (but have had an impact on P&S sales).
Mirror or not has nothing to do with sensor size.
And there is no consumer FF body, only consumer quality of the hardware. They are out of reach of 95% of the DSLR buying public and that doesn't make them consumer oriented in my book. Nor are they getting any cheaper, just cheaper made but costing the same illustrating that it is the sensor that cost money and put limits on how cheap you can sell them.
all your figures prove to me is that APS-C DSLRs are going further and further downmarket. how you equate that as something good for Pentax I can't fathom, especially right now that they don't have a colorful set of cheap K-x level cameras available.
Videomakers bought the 7D because they couldn't afford the 5DmkII. now they don't have to, because for a couple hundred more they can afford the FF 6D. The small Panasonic GH2 and now ruggedized GH3 have made serious waves in the video world, and Canon is going to bring improved video down to the 60D level (with swivel screen) to compete.
You shouldn't be interested in last year's figures, you should be interested in next year's.