+1. Sony has about 30% market share in the mirrorless market leading Olympus by not that much...
The mirrorless market still has a long way to go before it catches up with DSLR market...
At this stage saying that Sony dominates the FF market is stretching it a bit...
Not so sure I agree with this. The casual DSLR market is already shrinking. The only thing that keeps it at its current levels is the perception by the general public that "pros use Nikon and Canon, so they must be good."
There are only a very few things that have kept the DSLR market ahead of the mirrorless market for pros. Chief among them are investment in a lens system, autofocus and optical viewfinders. If Sony has cracked the autofocus problem with the new camera, that will leave optical viewfinders and standing investment in lenses. In the motion world, optical viewfinders are, at this point, only available on a tiny segment of
very high-end cameras used by very seasoned pros. Nobody else cares. And that change happened
very quickly.
So the only thing holding Sony back from dominating the FF market is current investment in the other guys' lenses. If they keep doing what they're doing, that may not be as much of a barrier as we might think. Especially as one of the chief attractions of the E-mount is that its short flange-focal distance makes just about every lens adaptable to it.
Now for medium format, the story might be different, but imagine, for a moment, that Zeiss, who is partnered with Sony for lenses, wanted to breathe new life into the Contax 645 platform...
Mirrorless Contax anyone?
DAF