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I think we are a ways yet from a EVF camera that can replace a DSLR for photography where capturing fast moving subjects is the issue — but what's a decade in photography years? ;-)
Clearly we are at a point where EVF cameras are viable for a lot of other things and where they provide some advantages over SLR systems for some uses.
(Like the previous poster, I combine DSLR and mirrorless cameras in my own photography.)
Dan
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Not to be too much of a jerk but mirrorless cameras are not a fad. Sony and Oly (and others) have demonstrated that excellent images can be taken without a mirror. I'm out on a limb here, but my crystal ball suggests that the SLR is starting to reach its technological EOL. Sure plenty more will be made and sold (I own and shoot the heck out of a pair of high end ones), but the nature of technological advance is to simplify and miniaturize. The flopping mirror is archaic technology. What hasn't happened yet in the non-mirror camera world is something that can respond to movement (particularly in low light) like the top end DSLR. At this point in my professional career (at least the sports reporter part of it) nothing touches the 1Dx though I'm sure Nikon's equivalent is just as good.
It's all very fashionable to bash Canon's sensor development and who knows <shrug> maybe they deserve it. I'm willing to bet a good cold beer that somewhere (quite likely within Canon as well as other places) serious work with on-chip detection/phase detection/?? is going on. Let's tell the truth. The whole mirror/shutter thingy of the SLR is probably the weakest link in its design. I mean why else is everyone so concerned about "number of clicks" when buying a used camera?
A camera without a mirror that can detect movement electronically with the same speed and resolution as current D4s or 1Dx will be a game changer. I have no special knowledge and frankly am quite happy with my gear (technique could always improve Still, even a vague sense of the history of science suggests the SLR is going the way of the hand-crank Ford or, more accurately, the manual transmission. Sure there will always be some around for some types of work, but the thrust of development is already moving to the chip/CPU interface where some serious mathematical mojo is going on.
Robert
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