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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Gavin Stoker

Compacts and APS-C mirrorless are the only growing camera categories – does this prove that price and portability beat picture quality?

Fujifilm X-M5 camera with a Fujifilm 35mm lens attached held in a pair of hands.

The camera market is a period of slowdown, according to Japan-based industry-watcher CIPA – which collates official data direct from a host of major retailers, so knows its stuff.

Yet I find it interesting that the two categories bucking the downward trend are, firstly, interchangeable lens cameras with sensors smaller than full frame – which we can interpret as being APS-C and Micro Four Thirds cameras – and, secondly, fixed lens compact cameras.

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