Originally posted by DamienW Surely there will be an end to the megapixel wars sometime soonish.
I'm sure there will be. It will be just like people got bored with increasing PC speeds after their PCs did everything they needed; instead they went off on a different tack, first to laptops then tablets and then smartphones, where the race was to be physically thinner, even at the cost of everything else.
FWIW I believe that MILCs will also start a "thinness" race. In 10 or 15 years time people will be laughing at today's Nikon Zs and Sony A7s, like we now laugh at old brick-like mobile phones. There is no reason in principle why a MILC body cannot be reduced to 3mm thickness, even if the lenses remain as big as tin cans. Of course with a smaller flange distance new lens mounts will be needed along the way, to the delight of the marketing people because everyone will need to buy yet another set of glassware. Or
sets of glassware as the reduction to 3mm probably won't be done in one jump.
If you read the comments/requests in Tony Northrups recent future predictions video, the MILCs will also be phones, navigators, Facebook terminals, solar panels, smart face masks, hair clippers, and perpetual motion machines too. In other words they will be smartphones with big sensors and interchangeable lenses, leaving rangefinders, DSLRs and medium format cameras as minority interests.