There seems to be a HUGE number of digital camera brands and thousands, if
not billions <LOL> of models. I don't recall there ever being so many film
camera brands and models. Is my memory failing?
I think you can say that the digital camera market is still quite young.
Seems to me that what's happening with respect to the brands is quite
typical for new types of products; "everyone" wants to try out this new
opportunity and brings their own variant of the product to the market.
Then, as the market stabilises more and more, more and more of the
producers leave because they don't manage to make a profit, and in the
end, only the mediocre few remain (as someone said...)
I'm assuming you are also too young to remember a time when film cameras
were something novel, but perhaps you recall the "home computer"
products of the eighties?
Are all these digi models really needed?
No.
It seems that the difference
between some models is hard to ascertain. I've never been able to keep up
with all the optio models, for example.
Shel
