[spookthesunset]

It’s amazing how many replies are poo-pooing your thoughts yet the financial reports demonstrate they are wrong.

I have a good expensive DSLR that I haven’t touched in more than a year. Why? Cause the workflow stinks compared to my phones camera.

- I have to remove the SD card - I have to bring out my computer and pop in the card - I have to sync it into Lightroom, which keeps all the photos in a totally different bin than all my smartphone pictures. - once I’m done dinking with the photos, I have to export the ones I like and import them back into the Photos app, which ensures it shows up on my TV - I’ve got to post it to FB/instagram. - I’ve got to nuke the card to free up the space - put it back into the camera

That is just enough of a hurdle that it keeps me from lugging the damn thing with me on trips.

Seriously. I’d love to use my DSLR more. It takes way better pictures. It just doesn’t integrate worth a damn into my computing infrastructure anymore.

I think there is a untapped market for some higher end camera with interchangeable lenses that can seamlessly integrate with a modern workflow.

[la_barba]

Financial reports don't demonstrate anything. You're providing an explanation without actually demonstrating that the provided explanation is the real reason. A shrinking DSLR market has been predicted by analysts (and manufacturers too) for ages now. The primary reason that keeps coming up is that people simply don't want to carry yet another device when their smartphone does more than an adequate job for general purpose photography. More and more the advantage of a larger sensor and better optics is only realized in a small range of professional usecases - Sports/action/wildlife photography, low-light events/astro photography, printing massive billboards, etc, etc.

>I think there is a untapped market for some higher end camera with interchangeable lenses that can seamlessly integrate with a modern workflow.

Sure, maybe there is. The real question is.. is it a tiny $1-2 million market or a larger 100+ million dollar market.

[detaro]

The workflow you describe is not as unavoidable as you make it seem. I can plug my phone into my almost-decade-old DSLR, copy the photos over (and use the phone or even nicer a tablet as a larger extended screen), edit them in an app and directly share them through other apps if I want. If I didn't want the cable, I could get a WLAN-enabled SD card - or if I were to buy a current model camera, pick one with WLAN integrated, all major manufacturers have those now.

I would not want to edit photos on the camera, a phone or tablet is way more comfortable to hold for that.