Digital camera shipments worldwide

Wine consumption rose as digital camera shipments fell, which is either a commentary on which pleasures aged gracefully and which didn't, or a simple accident of the 2010s and 2020s. Probably the latter. Probably both.

Digital cameras have been in smartphone-driven decline for a decade — shipments collapsed further in 2020 when travel photography essentially evaporated under covid lockdowns — while US wine consumption jumped to record highs as housebound adults made cocktail hour a full-time profession. Neither series caused the other; they just happened to inflect in opposite directions during the same pandemic year.

So the correlation is a small meditation on what survived 2020 and what didn't. The cellar did fine. The camera bag did not.