The Digital Camera Market.
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Digital cameras are now the hottest selling consumer electronic behind DVDs with seventy five percent of people having either already bought one or are planning to purchase one within the next year. After entering the market in late 1997 digital cameras were primarily a luxury good, therefore having fairly inelastic demand, however, with recent technological advances and increased competition between firms leading to lower prices for consumers digital cameras are now competing with conventional cameras which are rapidly become a thing of the past. The amount of a good consumers wish to purchase is called the quantity demanded. Lowering the price of digital cameras from P1 to P2 caused a movement along the demand curve and a resulting increase in the quantity demanded from Q1 to Q2. In the long run, complementary goods (goods which tend to be used together, e.g. cars and petrol) became cheaper and with developments in technology these goods...

