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Originally Posted by Grizzly Adams
Hate to say it, but cameras as such seem to be on the way out, unless you're a serious photographer. Everyone just seems to pop up their phone. Got an old Canon film camera, lots to be found at yard sales, even digitals now.
Grizz
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Your right as far as point and shoots go...they're dead.
But for example, the newly introduced 'Z' series Nikon...over $3K each. Not going to be available til November. Within a day of them being introduced we had 40 preordered.
Serious hobbyists (as well as pros of course) are still buying like there's no tomorrow.
Another thing that has really changed is how much hobbyists are willing to pay now. For example, the 300mm F2.8 lens. Primarily a sports and pro lens. At about $7000 each we used to sell a couple a year to newspapers, and freelance sports photographers. Now we sell that many a month, the vast majority going to hobbyists.
When you are out and about it looks like the camera is dead because of all the phones you see at events...but these are being used by people who in the past would have been using an Instamatic or...not taking pictures at all.