Smartphone tsunami now threatens top professional cameras

The inexorable advance in smartphone camera technology is coming for interchangeable lenses, writes Arthur Goldstuck

20 March 2022 - 00:00 By ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK

Smartphones killed off integrated cameras, better known as “point-and-click”, many years ago. Back in 2010, three years after the first iPhone appeared and two years after the advent of Android, the total camera market peaked at 121-million units, with integrated cameras making up 92% of the market. ..

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