Re: How much do the mirrorless systems threaten Canon and Nikon DSLRs?
amacal1 wrote:
Here\'s another thing to think about:
I think the only camera makers positioned to introduce a pro-level mirrorless camera are Canikon, and they won\'t do it because they have no reason to.
You apparently have not yet used a Fujifilm X-Pro1 or X-E1...
And to the person who wrote something along the lines of the only people who buy a mirrorless are those who already own a DSLR,, a) not exactly true, and b) that\'s a classic spin of a positive as a negative. (If we think of \"serious photographer\" as a person who shoots with a DSLR - and, yes, it is far from that simple - the fact that such people are among or the majority of those who get high-end mirrorless cameras suggests their potential for success, rather than a shortcoming.)
There is no \"threat\" or \"war\" or anything else here. DSLRs do some things very, very well - which I why I rely on them. But that does not mean that they will do everything better than other options, and in this case the small mirrorless systems can do some things better than the larger DSLR systems already - which is why I have one of these systems, too.
Also keep in mind that the thing that many here might regard as the defining camera - the DSLR - has only been around (really) for a roughly a decade and it supplanted a sort of camera (film SLR, mostly) that had only really been around and predominant for a few decades before that.
The story of camera technology has not been at all one of establishing some fixed tool that became the primary and unchallenged tool for all uses. Rather, it has been a technology that provided many variations suited for specific types of usage (view cameras, MF, rangefinder, SLR, point and shoot, Polaroid, etc) and in which the underlying camera technology has continuously evolved.
This does not support a belief that the DSLR is necessarily the be all and end all of camera design.
Re: How much do the mirrorless systems threaten Canon and Nikon DSLRs?
amacal1 wrote:
Here\'s another thing to think about:
I think the only camera makers positioned to introduce a pro-level mirrorless camera are Canikon, and they won\'t do it because they have no reason to.
You apparently have not yet used a Fujifilm X-Pro1 or X-E1...
And to the person who wrote something along the lines of the only people would buy a mirrorless are those who already own a DSLR,, a) not exactly true, and b) that\'s a classic spin of a positive as a negative. (If we think of \"serious photographer\" as a person who shoots with a DSLR - and, yes, it is far from that simple - the fact that such people are among or the majority of those who get high-end mirrorless cameras suggests their potential for success, rather than a shortcoming.)
There is no \"threat\" or \"war\" or anything else here. DSLRs do some things very, very well - which I why I rely on them. But that does not mean that they will do everything better than other options, and in this case the small mirrorless systems can do some things better than the larger DSLR systems already - which is why I have one of these systems, too.
Also keep in mind that the thing that many here might regard as the defining camera - the DSLR - has only been around (really) for a roughly a decade and it supplanted a sort of camera (film SLR, mostly) that had only really been around and predominant for a few decades before that.
The story of camera technology has not been at all one of establishing some fixed tool that became the primary and unchallenged tool for all uses. Rather, it has been a technology that provided many variations suited for specific types of usage (view cameras, MF, rangefinder, SLR, point and shoot, Polaroid, etc) and in which the underlying camera technology has continuously evolved.
This does not support a belief that the DSLR is necessarily the be all and end all of camera design.
Re: How much do the mirrorless systems threaten Canon and Nikon DSLRs?
amacal1 wrote:
Here\'s another thing to think about:
I think the only camera makers positioned to introduce a pro-level mirrorless camera are Canikon, and they won\'t do it because they have no reason to.
You apparently have not yet used a Fujifilm X-Pro1 or X-E1...
May 26, 2013 at 10:04 AM
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