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Video Usage Poll

Started Apr 3, 2018 | Polls thread
Cato1040
Cato1040 Veteran Member • Posts: 4,116
Re: Video Usage Poll

Crotchants wrote:

Alexsfo wrote:

video is the single most important driver for mirrorless (evf). W/o the need for video, dslr is just perfect for photography.

No.

Agreed. Reasons that are just as important or more important (subjective) for people to use EVFs over OVFs:

  • The ability to see your final product before you take it (causing a reduction or elimination to chimping)
  • The ablility to reduce size
  • The ability to reduce weight
  • The ability to more easily review your photos in bright sunlight
  • The ability to see more information in the viewfinder (focus peaking, zebras, histograms...)

I'm not saying OVFs don't have their advantages (though personally, I see few), but I would not say video is the main driver (most of the people I know buy mirrorless cameras for photography not videography), and many would argue mirrorless is actually the one that's better for photography than DSLRs. Almost all the photographers I know never had DSLRs and went to mirrorless, had a DSLR and went to mirrorless, or have a DSLR and want to switch to mirrorless. Some of them shoot a lot of video with their ILCs, but most don't.

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