Camera market forecast for 2014: Growth for Mirrorless and Premium Compacts expected!

The members of the Photokina company presented these forecast slides at an event in Tokyo (Source: DC.watch). As you can see the overall camera market is shrinking. The good news is that mirrorless is expected to have a small growth while DSLR sales will remain stable. The compact camera market will keep shrinking while the major surprise is the big increase of the premium compact camera market!

Also interesting is the expected growth of non pure camera devices:

The camera world is deeply changing. I am wondering how the photography market will be in 5 years from now!