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Compacts and dust on the sensor (again) - is it time to go mirrorless?

Started 10 months ago | Discussions thread
OP LorneBMT Forum Member • Posts: 59
Re: Compacts and dust on the sensor (again) - is it time to go mirrorless?

Chris 222 wrote:

Easy answer: get a Canon G1X3.

Excellent APSC sensor (plus you can push files quite a bit in post) lens and WR (zero dust or water intrusion, even in the extreme weather conditions I've encountered while hiking around the world (think hot deserts to super cold mountain tops) among many other qualities. It's hands down the best high-end compact cam out there. Feel free to check my previous posts on this forum.

Interesting response, Chris222.  Thanks.  I'd actually been looking at it.

Mirrorless is a language I'm only now starting to speak, and what I say below may reveal that, but here I go...

I'm wondering, though, if I wouldn't do just as well to get a mirrorless of comparable size, so that I could have the option of switching lenses on those occasions when I'm happy to cart them around, and otherwise, work with a main, prime lens (or perhaps a lens that has a modest degree of zoom).

Curious to know the soundness of my logic.

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