jalywol
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Which did you try and when? Current mirrorless are lightning fast, and very responsive. IF you want to do high level BIF tracking, you will still do better with a higher level recent DSLR than most M43, but for everything else (depending on the model you get, of course), mirrorless are remarkably fast.
Depends on your own point of view on that one. Interface and ergos of a GH5 are superb, for instance. Interface and ergos of a Nikon D3500 are awful. Using ANY DSLR in Live View is a royal pain, to boot (and once you get used to instant feedback from a mirrorless, it is very hard to go back to the amazingly pokey live view in most DSLRs)
The words "in my opinion" tell you all you need to know about that. I love having instant feedback about my exposure without having to do the guesswork about it, or chimp endlessly. Live view dramatically improves spontaneity of shooting and getting keepers to boot. Plus you have a good idea if you accidentally have messed up a setting immediately, not after having shot a pile of (unusable) images....
It really sounds like you tried a mirrorless camera 5 years ago and hated it. I would suggest you try one of the current upper end models from any of the manufacturers now and reassess you intense dislike based on old tech you were exposed to.
I use a GX8 which has a fabulous EVF. The only OVF I have used recently that I was as comfortable with as the EVF in the GX8 was the one in the Nikon D750. Anything lower than that in the DSLRs is like looking through a tube. Very uncomfortable and far less versatile than an EVF.
Well, so? This is really amazingly silly argument. The differences between cameras are not so much the methods used to capture the image, but the sensor and processor in the box. So, by dismissing the output of all mirrorless because, well, they are mirrorless, NOT because of sensor or processor differences, you are really going off into the ether here.
They are both camera types. They both use digital sensors. They both produce output that will vary depending on the sensor and processor used. The box is almost irrelevant, except for what the user is happiest with. For many it's mirrorless. For others it's DSLR. You like DSLR, and that's great. But to dismiss all mirrorless as being inherently inferior to all DSLRs, because they don't have a prism on top to look through, is pretty darn inane.
Once again, what was the last mirrorless you spent any time with? If I had only tried an Oly EPL1 or the first NEXs, and compared them to, say, a D750 or 5DIII, I would have come to the same conclusion....but I would perhaps have spent a little time with a recent model before having those impressions set themselves permanently in stone in my brain, and using them to advise others that mirrorless was and always would be a lousy format.....
-J
