In article , Paul Ciszek
wrote:

With every single person holding a cellphone camera in their
pocket, I can't see how they can survive.

The market for compact point & shoots is shrinking, but anyone who was
using a DSLR or MILC or even a bridge camera won't settle for a camera
phone.

yes they will, and have.

a phone is good enough for most situations where someone might have
previously brought an slr or compact, and the phone cameras keep
improving.

the slrs and other 'real cameras' will be relegated to special events,
not everyday photography.

Whether young people will continue to go *into* serious photography as
a hobby is a good question, though.

of course they will, but it won't be the same as what the old farts
think of as photography. the future will be largely software and image
processing.