ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK: Smartphone tsunami now threatens top professional cameras
The inexorable advance in smartphone camera technology is coming for interchangeable lenses, writes Arthur Goldstuck
20 March 2022 - 10:20
Smartphones killed off integrated cameras, better known as “point-and-click”, many years ago. Back in 2010, three years after the first iPhone appeared and two years after the advent of Android, the total camera market peaked at 121-million units, with integrated cameras making up 92% of the market.
Then came the combined onslaught of iPhone and Android, and the constant evolution of smartphone camera technology. In 2020, the camera market dropped below the 10-million mark, according to the Camera & Imaging Products Association. Last year, it went down to the basement, at 8.3-million...
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