Let's face it, even the best smartphone cameras can not compete with some of the best point and shoot cameras out there, not in terms of features and quality Image. They do not have to. The fact is that some cameras smart phones are very good or excellent, despite all that really needs to be is "good enough" for casual photographers to forget their point and shoot cameras, and this is exactly what happens.

figures Japan Camera and Imaging Products Association tell the story. Among Japanese companies, worldwide shipments of digital cameras has dropped to 7.58 million units, up 42 percent compared to a year ago. Compact digital cameras fell 48 percent year on year.

"We could see the beginning of the fall of the compact camera market," said Nobuo Kurahashi, an analyst at Mizuho Investors Securities, according

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high-end cameras with detachable lenses decreased by 7.4 percent during the same period, indicating that serious photographers are much less likely to leave their cameras dedicated to those built into their smartphones. The SLR market is not an immediate problem, but alliances are another story.

"The market for digital cameras declined at a pace and scale of what we envisioned as smart phones with camera functions around the world," said Sasa Olympus President Hiroyuki a press conference earlier this month.

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