Originally posted by osv then how do you explain the cipa data showing negative dslr growth, and positive mirrorless growth? who do you think is buying mirrorless cameras? the sony/oly/fuji/ect. forums are loaded with people who are bailing out of dslrs.
There an heavy tendancy... When there is choice between quality and convenience... convenience almost always win. Already in film era most shooter where using 35mm that was very average... because they didn't want to bother with medium format or large format.
Yourself spend your life on this forum arguing on A7 ultimate quality while it is not the best in quality (as shown by DxO) and spend a great amount of time explaining how great the experience is when manual focussing with it. The conveniance gain was so big you had difficulties to admit the thing was not best at everything.
Many have their music encoded in MP3 now and listen it through they smartphone... The quality is inferior to CD the connectors are usually quite average... A few care of fashion and get some Beats headphones, but many just keep the chipo provided with their phone.
Most are using their smartphone to take photos and the iphone has just the most upload count in flickr. They don't care at all they loose many things from a DSLR and care even less as the difference in performance one mirrorless of DSLR FF body could have. They don't care of manual focussing, they just designate the area to focus on with their fingers. The long term vision is not even DSRL... It is smartphones. They allready outsell by several order of magnitudes all other camera sales. That is the future. The most progress we make on sensor, high isos... small optics... The more smartphones will dominate the overall market.
A few realize still that they want better photos and thoses massively brought DSLR and still continue overall to buy more DSLR than mirrorless (75% DSLR and 25% hybrids from latests stats). But more and more are interrested to get something still good but smaller. A few go for mirrorless (with half of them on micro 4/3), some go for the bigger sensor compact camera like RX100 or Fuji X30.
That the EVF has some latency, or that the AF is not as advenced to what Nikon can provided on their DSLR... That there not so many lenses available... That not that important to them because well they don't really care. They use the kit lens on it and that all. What it better? OVF ? EVF? They don't care.
They don't give a shit because their camera is good enough. They are not going to cover the next Olympics, they are not making a living on wedding photography or doing studio work. They don't need the ultimate AF, they don't need the ultimate resolution, they don't need a big choice of lenses.
They just want a good enough camera as small as possible. All the argument for camera X or Y being the ultimate whatever has no importance to them. They just want "good enough".
This is the big share of the sales. And A6000 is good enough like K30 is good enough or Rebel, or RX100.
A7 is different througth it try to appeal to the guys that need the absolute quality and to enthousiats photographers. On this market... The echosystem, the ultimate performance everywhere (not only in low light) is important. Many of they guys are also after the ultimate lenses, the best sensor quality, the best AF, the best viewfinder be it EVF or OVF.
We understood you like your A7... but not everybody is like you just after manual foccusing some oldies on an hyped mirorless body. There old guys that prefer OVF and think you look even older than them by still focussing manually... And they don't give a shit you think they use outdated technology... Like you don't give a shit what they think of you.
And there the pro. Thoses guys needs the results, they are not trolling on forum, and until now they don't massivelly use Sony. If it was only that, bigger size help convince the client they are serious. But overall, they were not so many convince by a-mount... No reason for them to change now... And they might not be convinced by FE mount...
As for the wonderfull manual focusssing performance... Do their job for a week, and you'll understand.
And if market evolution is any clue, Canon sales increased and they have the biggest share of cameras out of all brand... Still their sensors typically show very average performance on DxO. For sure their DSLR camera must be future: they sales increased !
Last edited by Nicolas06; 12-07-2014 at 01:36 PM.