In recent years, the sales of point-and-shoot camera have a steep fall compared with the significant rise of the sales of single lens reflex cameras as well as that of the smartphone cameras.
In the first place, the use of smartphone cameras really changes people’s reliance on point-and-shoot phones. Many phones such as iphones, android phones and windows phones continuously develop the capabilities of their smartphone cameras. For instance, Nokia recently released lumia 1020 with a powerful 41-megapixel camera which enables the sharper images even when zooming. It is much more convenient and accessible for moat people to use the phones to record everything around them rather than to use the point-and-shoot cameras.
In addition, while point-and-shoot camera sales are down these years, SLRs are up 5 percent compared to last year. The big amount of photos taken by people because of the convenience make many people especially the shutterbugswant to make better photos which can be different from others. The super awesome image qualities of SLRs exactly cater to these people who do not want to compromise to the quality of their images and want to absolutely control their cameras every aspects like focusing.
Being attacked by smartphone cameras and SIRs, the decline of sales of point-and-shoot cameras is accelerating each quarter. The situation of point-and-shoot cameras’ market is not optimistic.
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