Sony E and Nikon Z are the winning mounts... Rest should beware!

[IronFilm]

7 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

You think camera companies make profit from selling used gear?! 🙂

To be clear, I was only referring to new sales. 

7 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

Why the heck would the camera companies want to cannibalise and undercut their mirrorless range by making a DSLR and new F-mount lenses?

It's 1000x easier to keep an existing customer than to gain an entirely new customer. 

Every time a person quits the Nikon DSLR ecosystem there is a high risk they'll leak out to a competitor's brand instead when they move over to mirrorless. Keeping them within the Nikon DSLR ecosystem for just one more generation helps ensure that their eventually transition to mirrorless will be with Nikon, as it gives Nikon even more time to build out a deeper catalogue for the Z mount ecosystem.

Also, Nikon treating their F Mount customers well and not dropping them like a hot potato as soon as they can, will give brownie points to Nikon. As it will build up trust that Nikon Z Mount ecosystem will be treated similarly, and will also exist for another fifty plus years as well. 

7 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

There's the Nikon Df for screw-drive

Any Nikon camera that's a D7x00 or above will have a screw drive motor in the lens mount. 

5 hours ago, BTM_Pix said:

Funnily enough, the Nikon rumour mill was churning out that Nikon are making a version of the FTZ in 2025 with a motor for screw drive lenses a couple of days ago.

Yes I read that already, if that does happen, it will knock down my guesstimated odds of another Nikon DSLR being released. As it would remove yet another reason for bringing out a new generation DSLR. 

 

14 minutes ago, mercer said:

So I had a look at B&H to see what DSLRs they still carry and I was surprised to see that they still have a pretty good selection. Obviously, older models. From Nikon you have the D7500 to the D850 and in between, and from Canon... the T7 to the 1DX Mark iii and everything in between.

Yup, sales of DSLRs are still happening. For Nikon they're sitll selling a couple of hundred thousands DSLRs during the past year (vs 650K mirrorless cameras). 

However yes, those DSLR sales are in a steep decline, but yet I could still see them releasing a couple more DSLRs (plus or minus one) before they totally call it quits on DSLRs. As they're still selling a volume of just DSLRs that's bigger than some other smaller players have been.  

[ND64]

3 hours ago, IronFilm said:

I could still see them releasing a couple more DSLRs (plus or minus one) before they totally call it quits on DSLRs

They sent modified Z9 to the space station. That alone is enough evidence that there will be no DSLR release. No customer is more conservative than NASA.

[Andrew Reid]

Do flappy mirrors even work in space? 😂