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And yet point & shoots are now at 2 million last year when 2019 had them at 6.7 million

I could imagine P&S dropping <0.5 million annually.

Slow news day

I wish I sold all my gear more than a dozen years ago.

CIPA members as a whole had mirrorless doing better than point & shoots + SLR. I think P&S + SLR will go below 0.5 million/year by 2026? Mirrorless will be 6-7 million annually? Catering to working photogs and enthusiasts demanding the last 1% of performance. Year 2019 2020 2021 2,022...

I still have mine that I bought before Christmas 2008. The latest successor 2020 R5 looks really nice but the bird photos that would come from it would probably be stolen by FIlipino bird watchers. So why spend extra to get robbed?

iPhone & Android killed a lot of consumer camera brands like Olympus.

Due to iPhone & Android eating into the consumer digital still cameras the trend now is for camera makers focusing their R&D efforts on larger image sensors like 35mm full frame and 0.79x crop medium format cameras. Anything smaller is at risk of being eroded further by the smartphone and...

Philippine Trogon (Harpactes ardens) by Paolo Dolina, on Flickr This verified Facebook page with more than 4.7 million followers has been using my work without permission for nearly 9 years. It was credited to someone else in spite of my watermark.

Fuji's not really after the customers of PhaseOne Hasselblad, Alpa and Leica as the tech of these company are absent with Fuji. Fuji's leveraging mirrorless image camera tech of the X mount but upscales it from a 1.6x crop to a 0.79 crop. So it has more in common with a Sony E, Canon RF &...

Competition to Tamron 35-150mm f/2-2.8 Di III VXD Lens for Sony E Mount? I agree with the reviewer's assessment. It's a good focal length. I hope Canon makes a similar lens.

New kit matters to marketers. If no new sales occurs they're out of a job and ad revenue for PetaPixel ends

According to this Canon rumour the CEO of Canon JP promised to release 8 new lenses annually for the next 4 years. If this is true what are the top 8 RF lenses do you want to see by this time next year?

Sales of - >$10k medium format cameras from Phase One, Hassleblad, Leica, etc - $6-7k double grip full frame flagship cameras like the Canon 1-Series & 3-Series and Nikon D6 & Z9 - $3-4k single grip full frame professional cameras like Canon 5-Series - $2.5k prosumer full frame bodies like the...

Grey-throated sunbird (Anthreptes griseigularis) by Paolo Dolina, on Flickr