Originally posted by osv yes, they are, because it includes the pro video division.
point being that it's kind of asinine for posters out here to act like sony is some flakey little unprofitable company that's betting on a milc segment that's going nowhere... rubbish.
it's so bad that some people out here don't even know that sony sells dslrs... and both you and that other poster made claims that were unsubstantiated with links back to the source.
i stated that it included pro video in the linked post that i made, and the info that you posted was already in the dpr thread... nothing new there.
I added no links whatsoever to my post - source, rumor or internet. I merely wrote truth of the restructuring Sony is performing and has been performing since 2012. As far as the DPR thread referring to Pro Video - sure, it was mentioned, but the scale of Sony's professional video (including studio, system and cinematic cameras and editing equipment) dwarfs the ILC sales. In any fair comparison, Sony does not sell more interchangeable lens cameras than Nikon, end-user, shipments, units nor dollars. They simply don't. STOP.
Nikon doesn't have any
professional cinematic or broadcast digital or analog cameras and equipment that I've ever heard of. By your logic Panasonic makes more cameras than Nikon
and Canon.
You may, if you wish, rest on your default, "if there ain't links there ain't proof' defense all day long. Doesn't change anything. Unfortunately I cannot link proprietary, subscription research on Sony Corp.
Where does Nikon compete with any of this? It counts in the revenue comparison you cite.
Oh -and while we're at it - it isn't profitable.
But - do I think SLR's are dying? I think SLR unit volume is on a slow decline to mid-2000's units - that period before the giant wave of consumer household conversion to a digital interchangeable lens body with a kit zoom lens that was never interchanged for anything else. If MILC's take up the smartphone upgraders and superzoom fixed lens buyers, that's fine. It shouldn't affect Ricoh much because they didn't get any of that 2007-2012 volume anyway. Canon, Nikon - sure, they'll need to rationalize productive capacity for the new reality.
Ricoh can quite comfortably and profitably chug along making fine camera bodies in many formats and sensor sizes, certainly to include a large-sensor MILC offering eventually. And if Sony makes gobs of money - or Samsung - killing Nikon and Canon, more power to them. I'll just keep using Pentax cameras and laughing at all the angsty, bleeding cuticles.