Is it enough for a photographer to have a camera app?

At present, the low-end camera market with slightly better image quality than mobile phones is being impacted by smart phones with image processing apps. More people are concerned about whether smartphones are also impacting the more powerful professional camera market.

After several years of prosperity, the camera market has an obvious downward trend this year. Sales of digital cameras, SLR and different types of lenses owned by Canon and Nikon, the world's two major camera manufacturers, all declined. IDC, a market research company, predicts that the shipment of interchangeable lens cameras will drop from 19 1000 last year to 174000 this year, with a decrease of 9 1%. Just last year, shipments increased by 20% over the previous year.

More and more consumers are using countless photo editing applications on social networks-Instagram, Google's Snapseed to the increasingly popular VSCO camera-to play photos in ways that people could not have imagined five years ago. These applications meet people's creative needs to some extent.

Although the professional camera market is declining, Canon is still full of confidence in this field. "Smartphones use camera applications.

Taking and editing photos is like cooking with cheap raw materials and a lot of artificial spices. Canon spokesman Takafumi Hongo said, "Taking pictures with a interchangeable lens camera is like cooking slow food with natural and real ingredients." .