Originally posted by Na Horuk I have seen one or two of those, but still not as many as Pentax DSLRs. Huh, interesting. I guess this might be very location-specific.
I have seen Nex and know 1 person that brought one. My father brought recently a K30 as well as 2 other friend. Another one took a Nikon7200 very recently with a sigma 18-35 and tamron 70-300. A colleague brought a m4/3 last year, don't remember if it was panasonic or olympus. 3 year ago ago another collegue brough the cheapest nex.
On the wedding I have been recently I have seen some mirorless, many smarphone, few camescopes. I know nobody that has any sort of FF. Well except if you count the film era FF of my father.
They all want a good camera but none is willing to spent more than necessary on piece of gear. We can say we are all quite wealthy people, working in computer science some are computer scientist other took marketing studies. But we are quite young or at least not old (25-35 years old). There so many things to buy or do that it make no sense to spend much more for a marginal improvement. Almost all people I know are very interrested to visit the world and it is much more important to them to have the money to do so than to be able to take better photo of the nearby brick walls. Several friend married this year, some brought a house... That things that make much more sense to them than a bit better and much more expensive camera.
The girl that took the m4/3 did it on purpose: she took 1 year off to visit big part of south America, and then Asia and Australia. She didn't want to wait 1 year more to have very fancy camera to record that and as she did almost everything walking tooking just a few bus/planes on the occasion it made no sense to have anything bigger/heavier than needed.
In the end it is all a mater of priorities. If I had significantly more money available I would have think of the leica rangefinder or more affordable, the Fujifilm APSC. In the current situation, the price to pay for it isn't worth to cancel my trip to Andalousia in october and to not save to go to Kenya next summer for a Safari (this alone cost as mucg as a FF + 1-2 great lenses).
Priorities ... i don't know many people that dream of a great fancy camera. The one the care the most is me. Even my father that is quite established in life and could pay full FF gear in a eartbeat if he cared see that is has somewhat ok health for now and that it make much more sense for him to do many trips go to see me and my sister often than to spend more on photo gear. He perfectly know what an FF is and what MF lenses are has it still has the gear he brought 40 years ago.
Last edited by Nicolas06; 09-12-2015 at 03:27 AM.