Whenever you jack up prices on low demand services of products it never ends well. I did use the rail system at one time, you could get acceptable prices if you pre-booked early enough. Simply put it's not cost effective for most people. Which isn't what a public transport system should be. Camera industry faces a similar problem -sales are not good, increase prices hoping to make up the loss of revenue - result is usually even less sales, then increase prices again...the cycle continues.
CIPA again the numbers are not good, despite some saying it's "not as bad as last year" and it's recovering. It really isn't. It would be reasonable to track the 2020 sales, if the pandemic never happened to be between the 2019 and 2021 figures. In other words still continues the downward trend for quite a long time now. Mix in some electronics shortages, and it doesn't seem likely 2021 is going to have a big recovery, who knows what 2022 will bring. I doubt things will improve for a while. It's just too expensive to buy into MILC, at least native lenses - I expect quite a few are adapting optics. Canon's pricing is near borderline insanity, yet the others are hardly good either.
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Looks like Sony had a rummage around the warehouses and found old parts from A6xxx cameras, same sensor, same old menus, no viewfinder, limited touch screen, no sensor IS either
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It's hard to imagine the vlog scene is that big, or demand so high. Not even having an EVF is a show stopper anyway
The camera industry is driving itself into obscurity with odd ball products, very high prices, almost no effort for affordable gear for those who might be interested, keep selling old stock (A6000 is still on sale dates back to 2014 as are many old RX compacts). Nikon's attempt is just another re-boxing of older tech, perhaps it might work better, I'm not impressed much with any of these new models.
Another attempt at an Android "camera", yet surely they work out that most people are just going to use their phone?
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I did sell some gear, however I'm not inclined to start spending any money on expensive MILC systems - when what I have can get the job done. I expect I'm not alone in that thinking either!