Megapixel phones encroach on digital camera turf

File this under the “well, duh!” category too, but megapixel cellcams are increasingly encroaching on digital camera turf.

I and many others have been saying this was going to happen for a long time now. This trend is just too obvious to be missed, right? I mean I always have my 7610 with me, and many, if not most, of the digipics I take are “photos of opportunity” for which a dedicated camera not with me is worthless. With the rapid advances in cellcam tech and new announcements on a daily basis (example: Samsung’s new Korean handset which supports 3MPix with an optical zoom), no one could possibly miss the glow in the dark, bigger than life writing on the wall that dedicated digicams will be increasingly driven upstream by cellcams, could they?

Well, apparently some people still aren’t getting it:

“We don’t believe there is a direct impact on our digital camera business from the sale of a mobile phones with high resolution cameras,” said Ken Sugiyama, operations manager at Fuji Photo Film’s public relations division.

Fuji, please talk to Sony.