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For the same reason people buy clothes in places other than Walmart, and why not everyone drives a Nissan versa.

Cost and volume are not the only variables people look at when buying a bag. It's...

Good that you can take it off.

Mirrorless is not exclusively about size. And once you get into the format, you might need these focal lengths from time to time.

Options are not bad.

Why on earth would they do that? They already have an excellent APS-C ecosystem. Why start over and fragment their userbase?

Can also be good for R adoption... for both reasons. Lessen the pain of the switch by giving new life to your legacy glass, and reduce the impact of a lackluster (in comparison to, well, anyone but...

Leave it in one of your EF lenses? It's not hard.

It's the only reasonable way to handle the transition.

@RedFox88, it's not that hard to do. Just put an actuator to automatically close the aperture. The linkage is there with FD lenses. Good for focusing.

Huh?
Makes perfect sense.

The 35 and 50 are the quintessential primes on full frame.

28-70 is about what the standard zoom for pros.

24-105 is canon's standard high-end zoom.

They couldn't...

Yes-tribe says Yes.

Go away, No-tribe dweeb.

SRSLY THO: There's a difference between "going tribal" and making a comparison between two systems that are obviously designed to butt heads in the...

Fine art, commercial, industrial.

All three have photographers that need to print huge for close inspection, or need a lot of resolving power. And both commercial and industrial are used to costs...

They didn't. They followed nikon design language into the mirrorless world.

Superficially it looks a bit like a Sony, because they're both cameras. Aside from that, fit, finish, materials and...

Talk about damning with faint praise.

Then again, for $320 I'm guessing that's about as good as they can go. Let's be honest here, geared rings are not what makes a cine lens.

Yes, they did a decent job.

I know, I know, that's why I went all SRSLY afterward. I was just making a silly joke.

Mirrorless is quite vague to the point of being useless except as a proper name rather than a description,...

Well, rangefinders have mirrors, just not in the optical path to the sensor :p

SRSLY THO. Generally, when people talk "mirrorless", it actually means MILC, which usually means interchangeable lens...

Well... Pentax is the 2nd slide.

And Sony entered the ILCE market (god, that's even worse than EVIL) in 2010, Nikon in 2011, and both Fuji and Canon in 2012.

So yeah, the origin story of...

Well, people tried with EVIL. Didn't take.

Bit sad, though. "Now look into my EVIL CAMERA!" would get some nice reactions, and then I'd have a good defusing followup comment so I don't sound like...

Why on earth would they want to do that?

@caterpillar that's not right at all.

AF is a function of how CD and PD AF works, not of a mirror and PD module. CD requires fast short steps and the ability to change focusing direction on a...

There are two possible issues:
1) AF performance. Contrast detect sensors don't like phase detect-optimized lenses and vice versa, because thy have very different methods. This is nowadays moot, as...

Yeah, nobody wants that. You can ready get a rebel or an older EOS M if that's your budget.

If there is one thing that Canon and Nikon ain't lacking, it's affordable entry level cameras