unfocused said:
Full frame cameras are a niche market. Full frame mirrorless cameras are a niche within a niche.
...except for a good chunk of people who disagree with that second part. Some folks believe mirrorless will eventually supplant SLRs (I do, though not anytime soon), so they are a niche of the FF market today but will
be the FF market down the road.
As such, some folks think it's a big deal. I happen to be one of them. I believe Canon and Nikon feel this way as well (despite their lack of public activity in this segment) and have been very very very carefully sizing up the market and making very careful decisions about how to enter it.
I appreciate how few FF bodies are in the wild vs. crop, vs. cell phones, etc. but the FF ecosystem is where the good stuff happens and it's fun to speculate about.
- A