2.5 million active SLR users looking to upgrade? doubtful. I'd imagine
that a decent number of those P&S users looking to upgrade may have had
a film SLR at one point, but they're not film users anymore, and are
upgrading from the camera they use, not the one in the closet.
Oh, and I was saying that there were roughly 5 million DSLR's a year
being sold, the 200,000/month figure was half of my ballpark sales
number (to make 50% of the market).
And the noise I'm referring to is digital noise in the image, P&S
Digitals tend to have noisy images, especially at ISO's over 100, while
a DSLR will generally have unnoticable noise out to 800 and less noise
at 1600-3200 than said P&S. Whne you have an option of ISO400 with bad
noise or ISO3200 with less noise for roughly the same outlay, which
would you buy. And the shutter lag on even the high-end P&S's is still
roughly double that of a DSLR (The fastest DSLR's are under 40ms shutter
lag, while the fastest P&S's are around 100ms last i checked).
-Adam
J. C. O'Connell wrote:
I see that your saying roughly 2.5 million
DSLRS a year being sold worldwide. You don't think
there could very easily be 2.5 million former
SLR users switching to digital? 2.5 million former SLR
users isnt much worldwide in my mind...
How many former SLR users do you think there are worldwide?
I bet its way more than 2.5 million...
I am not saying this proves anything but without
more information this is very inconclusive one way
or the other to me at least, I don't understand why
you are so convinced...
as for reasons to switch from P&S digicams to DSLRS
are DSLRS actually quieter? Why?
Are they really faster now,
P&S digicams have narrowed that gap considerably
havent they?.
ISO limits are not much of an issue.
People used 400 film with much lower image qualtiy
in there slow lensed P&S film cameras and didn't care much...
jco
