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<blockquote data-quote="panos_adgr" data-source="post: 5352" data-attributes="member: 12"><p>I do not believe that photography is dying as niche. I would 'stay at an angle' and watch what will happen after a few years. You cannot compare photography's popularity by trying to match its dynamic with the camera sales. This is irrelevant. Photography is more present than any other time in the past. Good photographers and serious amateurs were a small part of the general public. Camera sales have declined because simple people do a fine job with their smartphones. Camera manufacturers have lost the consumer part of their sales. You can see it reflecting on the type of gear which is available for sale. Cheap dslrs haven't been replaced by cheap mirrorless. Even sony who was early in the mirrorless thing abandoned entry models such as nex3 or a5000 later...</p><p></p><p>We cannot compare sale decline with interest for photography.</p><p>As for the young people, if we have a better look we will see sign of great interest in photography. Let's take as an example the #filmisnotdead movement. It has millions of uploads with this hashtag. Young people have slightly resurrected film photography. Kodak hired a few people to cover needs for the increased demand for portra and relaunch of ectachrome. Manual film cameras and lenses are going high on sales and prices as well. Expired film stock is running out. And it is the young people. Sales of cameras are quite better the last 1.5years. But the volumes are surely lower then the golden age of 1990-2005. At that time the only way for anybody to take photos was to by a camera. And the serious photographers had better and more expensive gear. So... We see young people reviving film photography even in a small degree. We see young people didital photography as well. We have to embrace the evolvement of smartphones (as a trend or reality) and realise that many people do photography with their phones because it is more accessible and cost efficient. The more involved people will switch at a point to a dedicated camera. It is as it used to be many years ago with the difference that in the absence of smartphones people chose compact and entry level cameras which nowadays are almost vanished. Because of smartphones.</p><p>So I think that there is no need to be that pessimistic 'yet'.</p><p></p><p>As for AI I will not inherit any of the relevant reputations and comments I read quite often. </p><p></p><p>Art is a form of personal creation which comes from our deeper emotional and life experience, inspiration. It is a need to express our creative self. It is something that it has to come from our inside. AI is a projection of an algorithm research and result, after a users simple quote of do this. </p><p>It doesn't represent nor it satisfices the need of an individual for its personal expression. On this very authentic base I cannot see for the moment any space for AI. </p><p></p><p>The above are my personal point of view based on my experience.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="panos_adgr, post: 5352, member: 12"] I do not believe that photography is dying as niche. I would 'stay at an angle' and watch what will happen after a few years. You cannot compare photography's popularity by trying to match its dynamic with the camera sales. This is irrelevant. Photography is more present than any other time in the past. Good photographers and serious amateurs were a small part of the general public. Camera sales have declined because simple people do a fine job with their smartphones. Camera manufacturers have lost the consumer part of their sales. You can see it reflecting on the type of gear which is available for sale. Cheap dslrs haven't been replaced by cheap mirrorless. Even sony who was early in the mirrorless thing abandoned entry models such as nex3 or a5000 later... We cannot compare sale decline with interest for photography. As for the young people, if we have a better look we will see sign of great interest in photography. Let's take as an example the #filmisnotdead movement. It has millions of uploads with this hashtag. Young people have slightly resurrected film photography. Kodak hired a few people to cover needs for the increased demand for portra and relaunch of ectachrome. Manual film cameras and lenses are going high on sales and prices as well. Expired film stock is running out. And it is the young people. Sales of cameras are quite better the last 1.5years. But the volumes are surely lower then the golden age of 1990-2005. At that time the only way for anybody to take photos was to by a camera. And the serious photographers had better and more expensive gear. So... We see young people reviving film photography even in a small degree. We see young people didital photography as well. We have to embrace the evolvement of smartphones (as a trend or reality) and realise that many people do photography with their phones because it is more accessible and cost efficient. The more involved people will switch at a point to a dedicated camera. It is as it used to be many years ago with the difference that in the absence of smartphones people chose compact and entry level cameras which nowadays are almost vanished. Because of smartphones. So I think that there is no need to be that pessimistic 'yet'. As for AI I will not inherit any of the relevant reputations and comments I read quite often. Art is a form of personal creation which comes from our deeper emotional and life experience, inspiration. It is a need to express our creative self. It is something that it has to come from our inside. AI is a projection of an algorithm research and result, after a users simple quote of do this. It doesn't represent nor it satisfices the need of an individual for its personal expression. On this very authentic base I cannot see for the moment any space for AI. The above are my personal point of view based on my experience. [/QUOTE]
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