Fortkentdad
Senior Member
I wonder exactly what they mean by focusing this higher end. Maybe it their point and shoot stuff they will be dropping and creating one call it D4000 series that is a merge between the D5000 and D3000? If they keep the price low enough - and maintain the Nikon lens promise that their DSLR lens will always fit any Nikon DSLR you buy in the future, there is still a market.
When I see people say that everyone is just using their cell phone now, go back a few decades, and while fewer photos were taken because developing cost money, more people shot with point and shoots, the 110, the polaroid, the kodak instamatic, etc. and only a few had a changeable lens SLR. Even early 35mm rangerfinders and others didn't have the changable lenses - those were for serious camera buffs or professionals. It is all those 110's polaroids, and kodak instamatics that have dropped away. I think there may be more people who own (and sometimes even use) a DSLR than there were film SLR users? I have not data on that - but as some president might say, there are people who believe that so it must be an alternative fact.
I'm counting on Nikon to weather this storm by adapting. Just because they are big does not mean they cannot fail. Think Blackberry. Remember Corel WordPerfect? Or who ever drove an American Motors Rambler. .... hopefully Nikon adapts and evolves to avoid extinction.
When I see people say that everyone is just using their cell phone now, go back a few decades, and while fewer photos were taken because developing cost money, more people shot with point and shoots, the 110, the polaroid, the kodak instamatic, etc. and only a few had a changeable lens SLR. Even early 35mm rangerfinders and others didn't have the changable lenses - those were for serious camera buffs or professionals. It is all those 110's polaroids, and kodak instamatics that have dropped away. I think there may be more people who own (and sometimes even use) a DSLR than there were film SLR users? I have not data on that - but as some president might say, there are people who believe that so it must be an alternative fact.
I'm counting on Nikon to weather this storm by adapting. Just because they are big does not mean they cannot fail. Think Blackberry. Remember Corel WordPerfect? Or who ever drove an American Motors Rambler. .... hopefully Nikon adapts and evolves to avoid extinction.
