Sony launches three new Cyber-shot cameras, admits point-and-shoots are a dying breed (hands-on pictures)
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Author: Stefanie Jenkins
Author: Stefanie Jenkins
Eavesdrop on any conversation between a journalist and a camera manufacturer, and you’re guaranteed to hear some variant of the question, “what are you doing about the rise of smartphone cameras?” At a recent Sony briefing in New York City, the company didn’t even wait to be asked — it addressed the question head on, and told us that basically, point-and-shoots are dying. Sony’s low-end camera sales were down 20 percent last year, and no one at the company expects that number to do anything but increase in the years to come. Dying doesn’t mean dead, though: these cheap cameras still account for as much as 80 percent of Sony’s camera sales, and the company estimates that people replace their point-and-shoot every two years, so there’s…
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