Mirror vibration DOES matter, particularly for high MP sensors

Preternatural Stuff wrote:

Funny how you make it sound like only Sony removed mirror lock up from their bodies? All brands, yes, even your Canikons remove it from their low end consumer bodies because of budget constraints. & also cos consumers were too ignorant to understand this fundamental issue which has existed since the first SLR was made.

That's why mirrors are a relic from the dinosaur era of film technology and really has no place in the digital age. Wake up & notice the industry change. Half of all interchangeable lens users in Japan are NEX/m4/3. If you add the SLT group to the rising numbers ... go figure.

From a purely photography technique point of view, the mirrorless brigade actually have a big technical advantage over the Canikon brigade in terms of sharper and more useable images (at normal print sizes). Especially when you consider that all of them have in-body image stabilisation too.