The internet three days after Apple do this: "APPLE PHONES CONSTANTLY VIDEOING SURROUNDINGS, 1984 IS HERE"
Some of 'em, yeah. Others where the lens has to come out of the body before you can take a photo, somewhat different.
(And yes, I suppose you can leave them powered on to keep the lens out of the body but then you're risking scratches or mechanism damage when you put it away and they also aggressively auto-power off.)
I can't fit my DSLRs into my pockets though which means they don't get carried everywhere like a phone or compact would.
(I used to own a Canon G11. It was not as fast as a DSLR, but I don't recall it being nearly as slow as you describe.)
Meanwhile on Android, I'm lucky if the stock camera app loads in that time. Plus another three seconds to muck with the focus circle, and another two seconds of latency while it actually takes the photo. The whole time I'll be starting at the screen trying to find the tiny circles for my fingers to tap. If I managed not to actually miss the moment (unlikely), I later get to go back and crop the photo, because pinch zoom while shooting is too slow to even consider using while shooting.
I have missed a lot of good shots when all I had was my cell phone.
(Yes, I could get an iPhone and it will probably perform better, and buy some contraption to give it physical buttons.)
To be fair, I can probably do that on my DSLRs as well if they're left in standby mode -but- there's a certain amount of weight and bulkiness inherent here that moves it out of "why is a phone better than a compact" territory because I damn sure can't fit any of my DSLRs into my pockets.
My DSLR is about the same
"There was once a dream that was Rome, you could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish." Marcus Aurelius, ‘The Gladiator’.
Contrast with my DSLR, the on switch is colocated with the shutter. I can turn it on and get a photo in 1.5 seconds.
With how fast mobile SoCs are becoming, I think this will be even faster.
How much of a real photo that actually is, is debatable, however many users will probably be happy with the result.
Pixel peeping is really rare and photo accuracy doesn't matter as much for the average person seeing a photo on a small device. They're not going to print that photo on glossy paper for a posh magazine or put it on a huge billboard.
And someone _bought_ that camera division. With the intent to continue designing, manufacturing and selling cameras under the Olympus brand. Sure, Olympus wasn’t doing great, but someone paid money because they thought they could run the business better. And their consumer business is in selling compact cameras, right? There appears to be at least some faith in the market.
> We probably won't see many new models from Canon
Personally I sure hope so. Their less-than-full-frame offering has been pretty lackluster afaict, other companies are doing the job better. We’ve lately seen some surprisingly kickass tech innovation in the full frame market from Canon, though. I hope they continue to focus their efforts.
Also, Canon G9X has bluetooth and wifi interfaces and phone app that allows quick downloading and sharing of photos (although it is indeed slower and more cumbersome than sharing directly from the phone camera app).