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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hollis_f" data-source="post: 1633322" data-attributes="member: 14566">Sorry to be boring by repeating myself - but any technological advances that can make a compact as good as today's dSLRs will also be applicable to tomorrows dSLRs to make them even better. And the laws of physics aren't going to be changing anytime soon - which means that having a huge lump of glass to collect the light and big buckets to detect it is always going to be better than a small lens and sensor.Yes, it's possible that they might make a PnS that's 'good enough'. Oh wait, they already do! Most people use their cameras to take photos to display on their computers or digital frames, or to stick on Facebook. Virtually any PnS made over the last 5 years is good enough for that.In fact, I see the market changing in totally the opposite way to Ben Gottesman. Instead of dSLRs dying away, I think we're going to see the death of the bridge camera and the PnS, leaving the market split between dSLRs (for people who want to take real photos) and camera-phones.We're seeing cameras in phones that are 'good enough' for Facebook - and have the huge advantage of being able to upload the images straight to Facebook or Flickr. I know of several people that have given up with their PnS cameras, because their phone does the job adequately and they've always got it with them.And a lot of those phone-camera users also own dSLRs - for when they want to take more than a simple snapshot.So why bother with an in-betweener when the 'good-enough' and portability factors are better solved by a phone and the high-quality end is better covered by a dSLR?</blockquote>

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