>>4402455the market is weird right now because there was a huge boom in the 2000s with the switch to digital and in the early 2010s with the switch to mirrorless, most companies finally getting rid of their legacy mounts that had been around since the film era, mirrorless cameras allowing adaptation of older lenses and the rise of social media
early 2000s saw a switch to digital, though still with legacy lens mounts, but the combination of digital being free to take as many pics as you wanted, the difference in tech between a DSLR and point and shoot, some social media for sharing stuff and relatively cheap crop sensor cameras a bunch of people who would have in generations prior owned point and shoots jumped into the prosumer market with DSLRs, so an increase in sales.
early 2010s, companies adopt mirrorless (major tech jump), switch from legacy mounts and social media pushes both film photography and the fact you can put legacy glass on mirrorless due to flange distance and EVFs being easier to manually focus than autofocus SLRs and DSLRs.
Today you now have the issue that there has not been any innovation in the market in like 10 years and more and more people are saying fuck it to prosumer level cameras and are now using their phones.
we saw the same kind of stuff in gun development desu. cold war/post WWII rifles were a huge jump in tech, but no one has done anything new since like the 50s/60s and a huge jump in handguns in the 80s with glock but since then the only real jump in handgun tech has been adding optics and subcompact double stacks. though that industry has more legs with coof and any time a democrat is running for/is president
