Originally posted by FantasticMrFox You can't just take an arbitrary point back in the past for comparison and then claim that because the current number is higher, there is no decrease. If sales were lower last year than the year before, that means falling sales, irrespective of what the numbers used to be 20 years ago. And as evident from sales statistics, DSLR sales have been falling significantly from at least 2013, if not earlier.
To make any intelligent conclusions you must look at a very long trend, not an isolated peak.
If some 7 years ago DLSR sales were
6x above normal considered by historic trend of SLR sales, then, if they fell to 'mere' 4x within the last 3 years, or even as low as 2x, that is not "a tragedy", or "plunging sales", but expected dropping down to what is considered normal for the technologically mature
digital SLR. Because that
peak of DSLR sales of 7 years ago was abnormal.
It is basics of statistics.
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It seems some folks are in fact offended with the new DA*50/1.4. It is not what they had in mind.
And then, they post shots made with DA55, FA50 or whatever else, trying to defend their own choices and how 'great those old lenses work on K1'.
Please consider that the digital FF has new demands of its own, and that may not be considered practical in terms of historic 35mm photography.
Now is the time when that legendary
10% increase in quality means going an extra mile in terms of uncompromising design, weight and cost.
Ricoh wants Pentax to have an offer in that specific arena, and they must do things the way others are doing it. There is no way around it — you are in the game, or you are outside of game.
The new DA*50 will sell 10x more K1 cameras to discerning photographers coming to Pentax system, because firstly their interest is different from yours — you are concerned to use lenses purchased 15 or 30 years ago and are content with 'good enough'. They, on the other hand, are new kids and they demand the very top notch.
They demand that top 10% of extra quality, and for which they buy an FF camera with pixel shift and a fantastic new lens.
But that 10%, that makes their results superior to yours, you are willing to sacrifice.