Originally posted by Sliver-Surfer So your telling everyone here that began their career in Film photography including me, that they have no impact on todays digital market.
Correct, SS ... but you already knew that, right?
Just ask Mary Ellen Mark, who has always shot film.
As she revealed on Mark Seliger's 'Capture' interview, the camera companies now don't want to know her.
Originally posted by Sliver-Surfer in the us there was a .6% growth in US from 09-14 according to IBSIS world market research and .8% in canada
If that was what you based your belief on, you based it on misunderstanding.
Go back to those articles and look again.
I interpret the percentage to be on industry revenues, not the number of professionals.
And the growth is well behind inflation rate ... in other words, the real revenue has contracted over the last five years.
The Priesthood of Pros is too small to build a multi-billion dollar business around.
Posters in this forum in the past have claimed that even Nikon and Canon sell predominantly APS-C, not FF, and that many of those buyers stick with the bundled kit lens/lenses, and that seems very plausible to me.
Consumers just don't covet camera hardware the way (a relatively small number of) enthusiasts do, and all the companies would be aware of that.