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Message: <blockquote data-quote="iveljay" data-source="post: 1643043" data-attributes="member: 37260">Years ago there was an article in AP by a pro on - coincidentally the Olympus XA Ron describes elsewhere. He was fully confident that it could be used to get professional results but his paying customers wanted a 'proper' camera if they were going to pay him.As for sales,I'm afraid that when it comes to selling most things to the consumer; size and a badge saying 'pro or sport' matters - no matter what is strictly logical. The problem there is that this part of the market probably provides the profit for the manufacturer by ensuring sensible economic bulk manufacture. When this dries up the cheap volume slr ceases to be economic. Add in businesses putting off their hardware refresh programme, it is hardly suprising that Nikon sales are down.</blockquote>