Market for DSLRs shrinking dramatically and why Canon - Nikon are to blame by EOSHD

I found intersting article, do not know if it has been posted in the forum yet.

http://www.eoshd.com/2014/09/market-dslrs-shrinking-dramatically-canon-nikon-blame/

I like the part about future of camera innnovation:

DSRLs need to improve as products

The experience of shooting with a DSLR is stuck in the past and needs to adapt to the modern era. First of all there needs to be a high end full frame EF mount camera with an EVF. The best EVF today (in the Fuji X-T1) is a more useful and functional tool than the optical viewfinder in the 5D Mark III, and you do not have to go to a mirrorless mount to implement an EVF. Just get rid of the mirror. This model should do video to the same standard as stills. It should be 4K and have a silent shutter, because clanking mechanical mechanisms belong in the past just as 1080p with moire does.

The ergonomics need to be revolutionised. The P-S-A-M mode dial is nonsense in 2014. Only one mode is needed, an M mode where individual settings can be toggled to auto, with a full auto / full manual button at a single press. If I want aperture priority I set everything else to auto and put aperture under my control. If I want full auto I hit the full auto button and hit it again for full manual. If I want programme auto I already have it and if I want shutter priority I simply take control of the shutter and leave other stuff on auto!

Focus points should be moved around on a dedicated touchpad. Not on a rear facing touch screen in an awkward place, but usable with one hand on the camera and one on the lens. Ditto the magnified focus assist should be shifted quickly around the frame with a single flick of a finger.

Mirrorless cameras are not for me about small size, rather the performance they offer above a DSLR. 5 axis image stabilisation, 4K video, S-LOG 2, better low light performance, EVF, better live view, faster AF in low light – all of these vital specs are to be found in mirrorless cameras but not high end DSLRs like the 5D Mark III.

While this technology will lower margins initially, in the long term it’s vital to keep pace.

If Canon and Nikon don’t start this process soon and do it right, then the market for DSLRs will face the same painful ‘reset’ that all technology comes to at some point, there the legacy aspects of the product need overhauling in the face of obsolescence and disappearing customers