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Apr 11, 2018 06:05:58   #
repleo Loc: Boston
 
Ha! The Luddites emerge. Milling around in defiance of the inevitable like the last of the dinosaurs.

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Apr 11, 2018 06:20:33   #
Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast
 
I don't believe it said anywhere the DSLR is 'Dead', lead in caption said the 'DSLR rein is almost over' and as technology progresses, it most likely will be, the competition is becoming very stiff. 'If' Nikon and Canon release a high end Mirrorless, then yes Mirrorless will continue to increase its future market share by large margins. As technology develops, and it will, the direction is apparently FF Mirrorless. That doesn't mean that DSLR's will be 'DEAD' by any means, it means the future is most likely Mirrorless....companies will start to place their technology on Mirrorless or be left behind, but the current crop of DSLR's will still remain relevant for years, maybe decades to come.

Its only relevant when you want/need to upgrade in the future will you stay with current DSLR technology or go Mirrorless if the technology is there? Not that much difference between the Nikon 850 and the Sony A7Riii according to reviews. And when Canon enters the high end Mirrorless world?......Oh the Horror if Nikon & Canon develop a high end Mirrorless.....just food for thought....😉😉

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Apr 11, 2018 06:31:34   #
TucsonCoyote Loc: Tucson AZ
 
rmorrison1116 wrote:
Oh no, are my 5DIV, 5DSr, 80D, 7DII, 6D, D500 and D7200 going to suddenly stop working?!

Yes!......remember Y2K when the world came to a sudden end !!!???

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Apr 11, 2018 06:37:42   #
Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.
 
repleo wrote:
The war of the viewfinders may be coming to an end. Interesting article on DP Review. Some quotes: -

"This year we sat down with leaders from (in alphabetical order) Canon, Fujifilm, Olympus, Panasonic, Ricoh, Sigma, Sony and Tamron to learn more about how they see the market, and to get an indication of what might be coming down the road.

Full-frame mirrorless will become the norm, and it will happen pretty soon

This year, almost all the executives we spoke to seemed to agree on one thing: full-frame mirrorless will become the norm, and it will happen pretty soon.

..... One is the mirrorless market: new, energetic, and increasingly packed with advanced autofocus systems and high-end video features. And the other is the DSLR market, dominated by increasingly non-essential iterative updates at the low-end..... "

Nikon seems to be conspicuous by its absence.

You can read the whole artiicle here. https://www.dpreview.com/interviews/5014039475/cp-2018-interviews-the-reign-of-the-dslr-is-almost-over?ref_=pe_1822230_279979850_dpr_nl_308_5
The war of the viewfinders may be coming to an end... (show quote)



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Apr 11, 2018 06:37:57   #
sb Loc: Florida's East Coast
 
New cameras have bells and whistles that allow those who know how to use those bells and whistles to take great photographs a little easier or quicker - they don't generally allow users to take better photographs. I haven't seen any photos yet that are better than some of my better photos taken with a 4x5 view camera that I had decades ago. Many still use such cameras. A lot of us old timers remember the excitement of having a camera with a built-in light meter - WOW! And THEN - a camera that could actually automatically adjust your aperture and/or shutter speed based on lighting! Those were exciting times - but many people still hung on to their light meters - I have one somewhere in storage!

I don't see many of us switching from a full-frame DSLR to a FF mirrorless - they are not really smaller and not that much lighter. Especially if we have to buy new glass!

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Apr 11, 2018 06:41:02   #
sb Loc: Florida's East Coast
 
repleo wrote:
Ha! The Luddites emerge. Milling around in defiance of the inevitable like the last of the dinosaurs.


I would answer you but I have to go out and hand-crank my horseless carriage to get it started..... Obviously the fewer moving parts, the better, so cameras will obviously all be mirrorless pretty soon. And I have wondered for years why a shutter is needed - why not just a 1/500th of a second (or whatever you want) sampling of the output from the sensor?

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Apr 11, 2018 06:43:34   #
chippy65 Loc: Cambridge
 
I need my DSLR to keep my muscles in trim !....... Cheaper.......and more fun than going to the Gym

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Apr 11, 2018 06:48:14   #
Say Cheese Loc: Eastern PA
 
letmedance wrote:
Left my Heavy DSLR home on my China trip, instead took two light mirrorless 4/3 cameras along. Never gonna happen again.


What is not going to happen again? Leave the DSLR home or take the 2 mirrorless..

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Apr 11, 2018 06:50:50   #
CO
 
An electronic viewfinder can't match the clarity of an optical viewfinder. There's no chance of lag with an optical viewfinder. There will always be people who prefer an optical viewfinder.

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Apr 11, 2018 06:58:54   #
illininitt
 
Thats good....maybe the price of a Canon T7I will come down!

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Apr 11, 2018 06:58:54   #
illininitt
 
Thats good....maybe the price of a Canon T7I will come down!

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Apr 11, 2018 06:59:54   #
Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast
 
sb wrote:
I would answer you but I have to go out and hand-crank my horseless carriage to get it started..... Obviously the fewer moving parts, the better, so cameras will obviously all be mirrorless pretty soon. And I have wondered for years why a shutter is needed - why not just a 1/500th of a second (or whatever you want) sampling of the output from the sensor?


Absolutely, I prefer my old 'Drum' brakes to the new Disc brakes

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Apr 11, 2018 07:12:50   #
chrisg-optical Loc: New York, NY
 
repleo wrote:
The war of the viewfinders may be coming to an end. Interesting article on DP Review. Some quotes: -

"This year we sat down with leaders from (in alphabetical order) Canon, Fujifilm, Olympus, Panasonic, Ricoh, Sigma, Sony and Tamron to learn more about how they see the market, and to get an indication of what might be coming down the road.

Full-frame mirrorless will become the norm, and it will happen pretty soon

This year, almost all the executives we spoke to seemed to agree on one thing: full-frame mirrorless will become the norm, and it will happen pretty soon.

..... One is the mirrorless market: new, energetic, and increasingly packed with advanced autofocus systems and high-end video features. And the other is the DSLR market, dominated by increasingly non-essential iterative updates at the low-end..... "

Nikon seems to be conspicuous by its absence.

You can read the whole artiicle here. https://www.dpreview.com/interviews/5014039475/cp-2018-interviews-the-reign-of-the-dslr-is-almost-over?ref_=pe_1822230_279979850_dpr_nl_308_5
The war of the viewfinders may be coming to an end... (show quote)


Yes Nikon seems to be in "listening mode" only....perhaps in a year or two....they have a "Z" mount system in the works. Watch out for the strong silent type.

I would love to see a FF system from Olympus!

In the meantime I will enjoy my DSLR until the mirror falls off...by that time ML will really be nice.

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Apr 11, 2018 07:27:02   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
repleo wrote:
The war of the viewfinders may be coming to an end. Interesting article on DP Review. Some quotes: -

"This year we sat down with leaders from (in alphabetical order) Canon, Fujifilm, Olympus, Panasonic, Ricoh, Sigma, Sony and Tamron to learn more about how they see the market, and to get an indication of what might be coming down the road.

Full-frame mirrorless will become the norm, and it will happen pretty soon

This year, almost all the executives we spoke to seemed to agree on one thing: full-frame mirrorless will become the norm, and it will happen pretty soon.

..... One is the mirrorless market: new, energetic, and increasingly packed with advanced autofocus systems and high-end video features. And the other is the DSLR market, dominated by increasingly non-essential iterative updates at the low-end..... "

Nikon seems to be conspicuous by its absence.

You can read the whole artiicle here. https://www.dpreview.com/interviews/5014039475/cp-2018-interviews-the-reign-of-the-dslr-is-almost-over?ref_=pe_1822230_279979850_dpr_nl_308_5
The war of the viewfinders may be coming to an end... (show quote)


I saw that article. It depends how you define "almost." To me, a DSLR is a real camera. I've been using SLRs since the 1970s, so that's my camera of choice. Will non-DSLRs soon be better than any available DSLR? I doubt I'll live that long.

Both Canon and Nikon are working seriously on mirrorless. Stay tuned.

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Apr 11, 2018 07:28:06   #
rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona
 
Writers have to write to make money. Write an article that gets a lot of readerships make more money.
--Bob

repleo wrote:
The war of the viewfinders may be coming to an end. Interesting article on DP Review. Some quotes: -

"This year we sat down with leaders from (in alphabetical order) Canon, Fujifilm, Olympus, Panasonic, Ricoh, Sigma, Sony and Tamron to learn more about how they see the market, and to get an indication of what might be coming down the road.

Full-frame mirrorless will become the norm, and it will happen pretty soon

This year, almost all the executives we spoke to seemed to agree on one thing: full-frame mirrorless will become the norm, and it will happen pretty soon.

..... One is the mirrorless market: new, energetic, and increasingly packed with advanced autofocus systems and high-end video features. And the other is the DSLR market, dominated by increasingly non-essential iterative updates at the low-end..... "

Nikon seems to be conspicuous by its absence.

You can read the whole artiicle here. https://www.dpreview.com/interviews/5014039475/cp-2018-interviews-the-reign-of-the-dslr-is-almost-over?ref_=pe_1822230_279979850_dpr_nl_308_5
The war of the viewfinders may be coming to an end... (show quote)

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