Originally posted by gatorguy I as well have met Nikon owners completely happy with their D850s. It gets tiring hearing what people think "everyone thinks" as justification for their unsupported opinions. Personally, I'd accept nothing less than a poll on a Nikon forum, and it would have to be over 90% in favour of mirrorless before I'd suggest DSLRs are in danger. Nothing I've seen supports anything higher than a 60/40 split, and no one in their right mind is going to give up 40% of their market for the mostly religious type reasons for going mirrorless. When I start seeing better images from mirrorless than I could get with my DSLR for the images I shoot, I'll be more interested.
I find it interesting how, the phone people have completely redefined advances in tech, in such a way that much of the tech is miles ahead of what the camera makers are doing or capable of. My iPhone has 4 high efficiency and 2 high performance cores, and 128 GB of internal storage. Just in terms of raw processing power, it leaves cameras in the dust. I wonder what the results would be if Apple or Google bought Pentax or another smaller company and applied the amount of engineering that goes into a modern phones to dedicated camera tech. What would they could come up with? But it's pretty clear, phones currently dominate imaging tech. even though many of us have needs that go beyond phone tech. and will still look for solutions to other image issues currently unaddressed by phones, like telephoto. At this point, ignoring the utility of phones is just not an option. Personally, I'm not selling my DSLRs...but a phone will be my "I don't have a camera with me anxiety" pill, replacing my ZS100 for that use. That bolstered by looking at my images, and realizing I have not one ZS100 image, I couldn't have taken with my phone. Yet after three days of shooting, already, I have images taken with my iPhone, I could not have taken with my ZS100 based on the 14mm equivalent super wide option on the phone, and the lack of useful telephoto images taken with the ZS100.