That mobile photography is slowly and fiercely killing digital cameras is something we all know but we ignore. Mobile photography increasingly offers more spectacular results, perhaps for this reason, it makes less and less sense to carry a digital camera, if we are going to obtain photographic results in many cases worse. Today we are going to show you how far the blow that mobile photography has dealt to compact digital cameras reaches, and if we can take the death of digital photography for granted, or not. These are the data offered by the Statista company in this regard, quite revealing.
Global sales of digital cameras have fallen by 70%, from their peak in 2010. Quality photography makes less and less sense, we only want to publish our snapshots on Facebook or Instagram, social networks that tend to reduce (and greatly) their quality. Not to mention the impossibility of sending our mother the photograph of our food that we have taken on Sunday at noon by WhatsApp.
The ones that are becoming popular, without enduring the challenge, are cameras with interchangeable lenses. "Professional" photography is perhaps becoming more popular than ever, perhaps due to the so-called photographic "posture", much model, a lot of camera, and little photographer.
Companies specializing in photography do not see profitability in investing in sensors and lenses for digital cameras, however, they are making great progress in mobiles, Sony is a specialist in this, offering some of the best sensors on the market. It's time to take the chestnuts out of the fire, and it seems that the method has been to popularize analog photography again, instant cameras like the Fuji X that are selling for hundreds of euros. The feel of photography on paper seems to be captivating the hearts of users again. In short, and according to the data, we can consider the compact digital photography industry for ordinary users to be dead.