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p.4 #1 · p.4 #1 · Fishing for Information: Will Canon build an 'A7'? | |
To me the main advantage of mirrorless is the smaller size for day to day use + all the benefits of the EVF.
I totally get it that some / many / most people around here shoot Sports / Wildlife / BIF / Kids running around etc, but not everyone. Perhaps not as many actually shoot Sport / BIF as would perhaps like to, but they buy a DSLR because it makes them feel like they could someday.
I don't shoot sports any more (never did more than car racing), I don't shoot BIF or even wildlife, and my kids are all grown up. I got really tired of dragging a couple of 1 series bodies around, then I got tired of dragging a 5D3 + 24-70 + 70-200 or maybe a couple of primes. I got tired of the speedlites being so big too.
So I bought an Olympus EM1 and some glass (3 primes, 4 zooms to be precise) to take with me on vacation, general shooting etc. I liked the smaller size and weight so much I sold both 5D3s and my FF glass is sat idle. Perhaps I should sell it. My entire bag of two bodies, 7 lenses and external flash take-up less space and weighs less than a 5D3 + 24-70 + speedlite.
What I am getting at here is that I went mirrorless first for size, but now I'm here there's lots to love about it, like the EVF, live histograms, touch focusing and so on.
If all you care about is fast AF then clearly DSLR is still king of the hill. If you're blind to anything but full frame then at least you have options in the Sony series, but as has been said before, you don't gain much in terms of overall system size because full frame lenses are still quite big, no matter what the flange distance is.
Canon have developed the knack of sitting back and watching markets mature before jumping in to them, then typically coming out with a fairly solid product, albeit it initially over priced. Just look how long it took them to move their video products from HDV tapes over to card media, but when they did they came in with several great products at the high end of the market price range.
I think it's only a matter of time before Canon offer a real mirrorless product for full frame fanatics, but how long that time will be is anyone's guess at this point.
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