iPhone pet photo with artificial depth of field – courtesy TapSmart article
Toronto. All good things must come to an end as they say. And that is the case for the compact digital camera industry. I have been saying as much for a while now.
The WCPHA said the same way back in the summer of 2019 with this story, “Member Marc Kramer passes on this report of continuing declines in digital camera sales. The compact business is dead and the high-end stuff seriously declining as the cell/mobile cameras take over. Shades of the decline in film cameras and the German industry described below. The Japanese Government usually forces companies to merge to save ‘face’. Interesting times.”
Now the web site TapSmart offers ways to replicate professional DSLR results using the high-end iPhone cameras. The use of computational photography already makes for far better quality amateur efforts. Now apps and the ever present smartphone make compact digital cameras an unnecessary purchase and are even affecting DSLR sales!
