>>4154127Phones will absolutely auto-blank concerts, theatres, banks, government buildings, anything with too many army uniforms in it, etc sooner rather than later, even in the west. RIAA/MPAA lawsuits, inevitable. Moral panic when a lot of photos of a building are found on a criminal's computer? Inevitable. Excuse? Just enforcing the existing law and the legally posted no photography signs. What's wrong with following the law, huh? Be a good citizen, chud.
The trend towards larger cameras and lenses strikes me as forced, like the crossover takeover in the US that was done by heavily marketing crossovers while trying to keep sedans and coupes further out of eyesight. The industry makes 5 giant lenses with headlining specs, advertises them heavily, and then they make 1 small lens, barely talks about it, and the specs are a disappointment, they didn't even try. Probably for profit margins, and the perception that bigger camera = more professional. If any oppressive government wants it to be hard for people with more capable cameras to hide they don't have to intervene, the camera industry is doing this to itself. People got too used to the image of the press photographer with a giant nikon setup and the camera industry likes it that way because it visually justifies higher prices even if it costs the same amount of money to manufacture.
