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Will Mirror-less Cameras take over from oldschool DSLR?

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Will Mirror-less Cameras take over from oldschool DSLR?

May 16, 2011

Ive just been reading reviews on the new Sony NEX-5 and Lumix GMC- G3.

Features like a smaller body size and weight, touch-screen interface, direct touch-screen selection of focus points, G3 lets you put the AF point anywhere in the frame, not just within a central portion. All lead me to think we are witnessing the end or mirror technology for anything under 20mp.

I agree manufacturers have a long way to go in terms of lens options, but as lenses become available and with advances in smart point and shoot features dont you think that this will be the new standard for DSLR style camers and the current cumbersome style associate with mirrior systems under 18mp will be history ? This would leave the chunky mirror technology to pro DSLR above 24mp.

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Will Mirror-less Cameras take over from oldschool DSLR?	Sandgropers	May 16, 2011
Re: Will Mirror-less Cameras take over from oldschool DSLR?	Zone8	May 16, 2011
Re: Will Mirror-less Cameras take over from oldschool DSLR?	Barry Fitzgerald	May 16, 2011
Re: Will Mirror-less Cameras take over from oldschool DSLR?	Chris R-UK	May 16, 2011
Re: Will Mirror-less Cameras take over from oldschool DSLR?	Barry Fitzgerald	May 16, 2011
Re: Will Mirror-less Cameras take over from oldschool DSLR?	Chris R-UK	May 16, 2011
Re: Will Mirror-less Cameras take over from oldschool DSLR?	Barry Fitzgerald	May 16, 2011
Re: Will Mirror-less Cameras take over from oldschool DSLR?	Ian Stuart Forsyth	May 17, 2011
You're wrong there Zone8	Tim in upstate NY	May 16, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	Barry Fitzgerald	May 16, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	Tim in upstate NY	May 16, 2011
Another EVF advantage	Chris R-UK	May 16, 2011
Re: Another EVF advantage	ljfinger	May 16, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	Barry Fitzgerald	May 16, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	Tim in upstate NY	May 16, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	Barry Fitzgerald	May 16, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	PerL	May 16, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	Tim in upstate NY	May 16, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	PerL	May 16, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	Erick L	May 16, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	PerL	May 16, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	Erick L	May 16, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	Yargo	May 16, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	PerL	May 17, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	Don_D	May 16, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	Barry Fitzgerald	May 16, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	ljfinger	May 16, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	coudet	May 18, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	Tim in upstate NY	May 18, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	PerL	May 18, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	Barry Fitzgerald	May 18, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	Erick L	May 18, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	Zone8	May 18, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	Tim in upstate NY	May 18, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	Barry Fitzgerald	May 18, 2011
And some people still use film	wb2trf	May 20, 2011
Re: And some people still use film	ljfinger	May 20, 2011
Re: And some people still use film	wb2trf	May 20, 2011
Re: And some people still use film	ljfinger	May 20, 2011
Re: And some people still use film	Barry Fitzgerald	May 20, 2011
Re: And some people still use film	wb2trf	May 20, 2011
Have you seen a single pro taking the Evf	PerL	May 20, 2011
Have you seen a single pro prefering EVFs to OVFs	PerL	May 20, 2011
Re: And some people still use film	hjulenissen	May 20, 2011
Re: And some people still use film	Barry Fitzgerald	May 20, 2011
Re: And some people still use film	hjulenissen	May 20, 2011
Re: And some people still use film	Barry Fitzgerald	May 20, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	PerL	May 18, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	Don_D	May 18, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	Tim in upstate NY	May 18, 2011
Re: You're wrong there Zone8	Don_D	May 18, 2011
Servers & mainframes not the same thing . . duh!!!	Tim in upstate NY	May 18, 2011
Re: Servers & mainframes not the same thing . . duh!!!	Don_D	May 18, 2011
You're wrong there Zone8 - NO I ain't!	Zone8	May 16, 2011
Re:	Erick L	May 16, 2011
Yes. Mirrors will go the way of plates, large format, manual focus, and film	wb2trf	May 16, 2011
Re: Yes. Mirrors will go the way of plates..	Don_D	May 16, 2011
Re: Yes. Mirrors will go the way of plates, large format, manual focus, and film	migus	May 17, 2011
Re: Yes. Mirrors will go the way of plates, large format, manual focus, and film	wb2trf	May 18, 2011
Re: Yes. Mirrors will go the way of plates, large format, manual focus, and film	ljfinger	May 18, 2011
Re: Yes. Mirrors will go the way of plates, large format, manual focus, and film	wb2trf	May 18, 2011
Re: Yes. Mirrors will go the way of plates, large format, manual focus, and film	Patrick T. Kelly	May 18, 2011
Yeah, yeah, heard it all before	ljfinger	May 18, 2011
Eventually...	TrapperJohn	May 16, 2011
Re: Eventually...	sorinx	May 18, 2011
Re: Eventually...	ljfinger	May 18, 2011
Re: Eventually...	PaulRivers	May 18, 2011
Re: Eventually...	ljfinger	May 18, 2011
Re: Eventually...	PerL	May 18, 2011
Re: Eventually...	Chris R-UK	May 19, 2011
A few things no-one seems to have mentioned...	Alski	May 19, 2011
Re: A few things no-one seems to have mentioned...	Frank LoPriore	May 19, 2011
Re: A few things no-one seems to have mentioned...	Chris R-UK	May 19, 2011
Re: A few things no-one seems to have mentioned...	PerL	May 19, 2011
"se the same as the camera" for optics, not sensor??	hjulenissen	May 19, 2011
Re: "se the same as the camera" for optics, not sensor??	PerL	May 19, 2011
Re: "se the same as the camera" for optics, not sensor??	hjulenissen	May 19, 2011
Re: "se the same as the camera" for optics, not sensor??	PerL	May 19, 2011
Re: "se the same as the camera" for optics, not sensor??	hjulenissen	May 19, 2011
Re: "se the same as the camera" for optics, not sensor??	ljfinger	May 19, 2011
Re: "se the same as the camera" for optics, not sensor??	hjulenissen	May 19, 2011
Re: "se the same as the camera" for optics, not sensor??	ljfinger	May 19, 2011
Re: "se the same as the camera" for optics, not sensor??	hjulenissen	May 19, 2011
Re: "se the same as the camera" for optics, not sensor??	ljfinger	May 19, 2011
Re: "se the same as the camera" for optics, not sensor??	hjulenissen	May 20, 2011
Re: "se the same as the camera" for optics, not sensor??	ljfinger	May 20, 2011
Re: "se the same as the camera" for optics, not sensor??	hjulenissen	May 21, 2011
Re: "se the same as the camera" for optics, not sensor??	ljfinger	May 21, 2011
Re: "se the same as the camera" for optics, not sensor??	hjulenissen	May 22, 2011
Re: A few things no-one seems to have mentioned...	Frank LoPriore	May 19, 2011
Two responses Alski	Tim in upstate NY	May 19, 2011
Re: Two responses Alski	ljfinger	May 19, 2011
Re: Two responses Alski	Peter Shute	May 25, 2011
Re: Two responses Alski	ljfinger	May 25, 2011
Re: Two responses Alski	hjulenissen	May 25, 2011
Re: Two responses Alski (pt i)	Alski	May 19, 2011
Re: Two responses Alski (pt ii)	Alski	May 19, 2011
You're looking 'at' no matter which system	TrapperJohn	May 20, 2011
Re: You're looking 'at' no matter which system	ljfinger	May 20, 2011
"as good' versus 'good enough'	TrapperJohn	May 20, 2011
Re: "as good' versus 'good enough'	ljfinger	May 20, 2011
Re: Eventually...	coudet	May 19, 2011
Pointless thread.	Graystar	May 16, 2011
Re: Pointless thread.	normsmith	May 16, 2011
A small Ff	PerL	May 16, 2011
Or mirrorless can be a fad that will go away	dylanbarnhart	May 17, 2011
Re: Will Mirror-less Cameras take over from oldschool DSLR?	RedFox88	May 17, 2011
I'll disagree with you. Mirrorless cameras are not going to 'take over'.	ScottyNV	May 17, 2011
Re: Will Mirror-less Cameras take over from oldschool DSLR?	sorinx	May 18, 2011
Re: Will Mirror-less Cameras take over from oldschool DSLR?	ljfinger	May 18, 2011
The bottom line on all this	wb2trf	May 20, 2011
Re: The bottom line on all this	ljfinger	May 20, 2011
On the bright side your old DSLRs will be cheap	wb2trf	May 21, 2011
Re: On the bright side your old DSLRs will be cheap	ljfinger	May 21, 2011
Re: On the bright side your old DSLRs will be cheap	frank-in-toronto	May 22, 2011
Re: On the bright side your old DSLRs will be cheap	coudet	May 24, 2011
Re: On the bright side your old DSLRs will be cheap	hjulenissen	May 24, 2011
If you want bigger cameras, you won't get them	wb2trf	May 25, 2011
Re: If you want bigger cameras, you won't get them	ljfinger	May 25, 2011
Re: If you want bigger cameras..wb2trf	Don_D	May 25, 2011
Re: If you want bigger cameras..wb2trf	frank-in-toronto	May 25, 2011
Re: If you want bigger cameras..wb2trf	wb2trf	May 25, 2011
Re: If you want bigger cameras..wb2trf	ljfinger	May 25, 2011
when will OVF work?	tko	May 25, 2011
Re: Will Mirror-less Cameras take over from oldschool DSLR?	Mikeobe	May 25, 2011
When I was a kid with a Kodac !	Mr Roygbiv rainbow	May 25, 2011

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