Will DSLR be replaced by mirrorless?

[tbcass]

As for lag, I have never been in a situation where even the tiniest amount of lag has ever kept me from getting the shot. OVF users are just grasping at straws.

True!!! There's lag with DSLRs as well. The time for the mirror to get out of the way. One reason people liked rangefinder cameras in film days is they did not suffer from that lag, that and their smaller size and much quieter operation.

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Tom

 

[T3]

Where this argument completely falls apart is you are ignoring the lag (delay) that occurs due to the mechanical nature of the mirror flipping up. You see the subject but when you push the button but the actual photo is taken after a short delay. That could actually be worse than electronic delay with an EVF.

Yes, people seem to forget that the need to move a mirror up and down with every shot presents its own lag in the process. And you literally can never see the exact moment that you are capturing, whereas with mirrorless technology that allows for zero viewfinder blackout (like in the A9, which will eventually trickle down to other models) you won't have a viewfinder blackout when you take your shot.

There are advantages and negatives with any technology, but mirrorless technology just has so many more advantages. And we're still in the early days of the technology, too.

 

[PhotoTeach2]

"PRE-BURST" is nothing new, there were cameras doing it already ten years ago I think.

Correct.

That's part of the point & shoot technology that birthed the MILC.

A feature that is hardly ever used, just for the sake of adding to the features list.

Ask the people that have, and use it.

That F1-X1 is now selling for much more than retail, 10 years later.

And there is no reason DSLR won't be able to do all that is possible with a ML, except of course the EVF itself, but in liveview.

It is not the fact to have a evf that prevents from using exactly the same technology when the mirror is up. The only difference is the evf, that exists since twenty years on all non DSLR cameras, not a real reason to roam in the streets at night with a gong shouting at people that the end of the DSLR has come :-D

 

[stevo23]

Maybe they love it!

Probably depends on their ego as some may associate the noise with interest (which they may conflate with importance).

Most mirrorless cameras will have a shutter for quite some time. Not everyone will be shooting electronic shutter. So where will still be sound. But the sound will just be quieter, tamer, rather than the cacophony of DSLR mirror slapping that we currently have.

Mechanical shutter isn’t likely to go away, but the ability to choose electronic shutters will win.