tdekany Loc: Oregon

Agree. Dslrs are not going anywhere, but the millions of mirrorless cameras that were sold, were sold instead of dslrs.

CatMarley Loc: North Carolina

Yes. I still have my FM here on my desk, loaded with Kodak ASA 400, ready for action.

CatMarley Loc: North Carolina

And will continue to be - in increasing numbers.

LoneRangeFinder Loc: Left field

I have an FM2 with the Fuji slide film (what else?!)

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Page 10 - do I hear any more bids {or entertainment}??

Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast

I've held and shot a Bazooka Cat, and believe me, they're way more than 10 lbs and they take awful pictures...stay with your Fuji

Steve Perry Loc: Sylvania, Ohio

LOL, take it easy :) Just a friendly discussion.

First, mirrorless may be getting closer than I first suspected - I forgot about the a9 - although, didn't / doesn't it have problems with overheating? I don't follow it too closely at this point, probably will when Nikon gets in the game this year. No argument, those performance numbers are impressive. Although the Kentucky derby test didn't seem too impressive. My D5 or D850 would have nailed it :)

Also, I'll beg to differ on the weather sealing. The Sony was the only camera to die in this test - that Nikon and Canon easily passed:
https://www.imaging-resource.com/articles/2017-weather-testing-nikon-d850-vs-sony-a7riii-canon-5div-olympus-e-m1II

Also, I don't really like using adapters - it's one more component to go bad / leak. I need a complete system that has the lenses I need (i.e. big primes). This is probably why, while Sony was at the olympics, you didn't see much of them - they just don't have the lens lineup. When you buy a camera, you buy the system and Sony isn't there yet - at least not for me. Obviously, it is for some, and that's cool. Not everyone can be shoehorned into a paradigm.

And that's really my point.

DSLRs won't die off until there is no longer an advantage to them. If a mirrorless system came out that gave me everything I need and more, I'd be all over it. I'm hoping Nikon gives us something this year that delivers the specs, the system, and the ruggedness needed for the kind of work I do.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Yep

Edia Loc: Central New Jersey

You can't stop progress. When I started photography, the SLR was the thing. Then came the DSLR and film all but disappeared. Now Mirrorless cameras are coming of age and the future of DSLR's may be numbered. There will always be something new and improved coming along. There will be overlap between the old and the new but in the end the new will win out.

tdekany Loc: Oregon

Steve, big fan, use Olympus, but the overheating issues are gone with the new Sony bodies, which you can see are slightly bigger now, starting with the A9.

Paladin48 Loc: Orlando

If the camera companies could get away with it that would happen. Taking "Planned Obsolescence" to a higher (lower?) level.
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE ... YOU WILL ASSIMILATE!!! .....

Steve Perry Loc: Sylvania, Ohio

Thanks - good to know, I'm glad they got it fixed.

JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

Absolutely!!! People for the most part are unaware of all the stuff that had to be done to get ready. I recall all the prep work we did to be ready.

And when the big day did strike, I only heard of minor problems with mostly small businesses that had tried to just ignore the lead up to the year 2000 rollover.

The next big one is when the UNIX clocks roll over in the year 2036 if I remember correctly.

tdekany Loc: Oregon

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

I will never understand why folk get so adamant about issues like this. I can't see DSLRs disappearing any times soon and I have nothing against mirrorless cameras. Nor do I feel there should be a "law against" skylight filters, post processing, portrait retouching or the use of electronic flash, one way or the other. There is a time and a place for any kind of gear in photography and it is up to each individual photographer as to choices, options and methods.

All of theses issues are debatable. If a photographer prefers to stick to whatever he or she is using or doing, that does not mean that they are reactionary, foolish, in denial or are opposed to progress or advancements in technology.

I am certainly not "stingy" when it comes to purchasing high end gear, my account and lovely wife can attest to that. Before I re-tool, invest in different systems, I carefully asses the situation. If the new stuff will enable me to improve or enhance the quality of my photography, get me past any limitations of my present gear, improve efficiency or production, allow me to enter new markets, and seeing that am in business, I need to justify justify the expenditure. If all of this pans out, I'm in! If not, all I am buying into is some new and shiny but superfluous hardware and wasted money.

PerhasI have a different perspective. I used to shoot weddings with a 4x5 Linhoff press camera- with onboard flash, the thing weigh in at 11 pounds- I managed. After that I went a motor driven Hasselblad system (kinda noisy) and my flash power pack had an audible whine. Compared to my current DSLR and light gear, in a cavernous church, that rig sounded like a lit up police car coming up the aisle! Point is, I never lost a shot because of "mirror slap" and I never had noise complaints from the clergy or anyone else! Nowadays with my current DSLR equipment I can move around like a cat and there are no issues.

If you do landscape photography, still life, studio work and are not working on the fly, what's the big deal with reflex noise, vibration etc. Yo work on a tripod, lock up the mirror and go! By the same token, if you can manage with an electronic image in the viewfinder and can access the range of lens types and focal lengths, I can't find anythg wrong with a mirrorless camera. If you need more compact and lighter weight gear that mirrorless is the ticket.

My dealer let me try out a demo mirrorless camera for a couple of days. It took me awhile to get used to the viewfinder image and I found it not quite as easy to visually assess depth of field in critical selective focus situations- something I could get used to.

I am always will to learn and embrace new ideas and methods. In my professional work I do portraiture, I still shoot weddings, 60% of my work is in the commercial and industrial field. I do a lot of food and beverage advertising jobs, a bit of fashion, assignments on industrial and construction sites, product illustration and architectural interiors and exteriors. My main cameras are a Canon DSLR system and a digitized medium format camera system. I still have some large format film gear wich is used occasionally. So- if anyone can advise me how a mirrorless camera system would fit into this scenario, I am all ears- I am not being facetious or sarcastic.

On vacations and just foolin' around I just pack my Canon and a 24-105 Zoom and my cell phone camera- perhaps a nice little mirrorless would be cool!