hmm.
I'm not remotely convinced by the idea that there's a state of chaos, which he seems to suggest follows simply because there are many cameras being manufactured and marketed ... and I'm not convinced either by his assertion that in the days when there were only
film cameras, the market was serene, and that people bought a camera and kept it until it wore out or they died ... as I remember, there was always a flood of "new and therefore better" cameras ... the difference may be one of scale, of course, as digital technology and the explosion of manufacturing capacity in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and (especially) China has reduced the cost of consumer cameras so much ...