Horses for courses... My understanding is that in Japan DSLRs reign supreme. They are considered “macho”, “manly”... “size makes you a better photographer”. DSLRs continue to sell very well in Japan.
The Japanese are also the biggest consumers of cameras in the world. I remember reading a statistic on a forum (Yes, I know, this isn’t exactly a hard fact!) which suggested that the the Japanese buy about 70% of all DSLRs sold annually in the world.
In many worldwide markets DSLRs are “DEAD”! Only the middle-aged, like me, still buy them! Yes, I want a 7D3, but I have to resign myself to reality - Canon might not give me one.
Ummmm....no. Just....no.
About 45% of the interchangeable lens cameras (ILCs) shipped to Japan are DSLRs, and 55% are MILCs – in most other geographies more DSLRs are sold than MILCs (globally, 62% of ILCs are DSLRs). So DSLRs certainly don’t ‘reign supreme’ in Japan, in fact the opposite is true. Also, about
7% of DSLRs go to Japan, not 70%.
Those
are hard facts, based on the CIPA data for Jan-Nov 2018.
Speaking as a resident of Australia I can say that DSLRs are definitely dead here! Only professionals still use them. Australia is predominantly Canon - more professionals use it as opposed to Nikon. Sales here are now all mirrorless, mirrorless, mirrorless...plus the Fujifilm GFX which sells much better than any traditional DSLR.
Your statements above were blatantly false, and this is more BS. In every geography outside of Japan, DSLRs are more popular than MILCs, so your suggestion that sales in AUS are all mirrorless is clearly false. Globally, sales of Fuji ILCs aren’t sufficient to make more than a blip in market share, so your statement that the GFX outsells the ~60% of ILCs that are DSLRs is almost certainly another falsehood.
Worldwide, Canon has made the right decision in going “R”. As a dinosaur who loves DSLRs I am not coping very well
To be clear, Canon’s decision was to start selling a FF MILC line. Nothing else. THey certainly haven’t said they’re stopping DLSR development, in fact they’ve said (publicly) the exact opposite.
So to sum up for the TL;DR folks, your whole post is fallacious fantasy, except perhaps the very last bit about you having trouble coping.