slclick said:
It seemed for a while, we had pretty decent conversations here about why some forumites wanted/needed mirrorless. Now we have regressed to the point where, folks just have GAS and can't give rational arguments and are debasing dslr's as if they do not allow the opportunity to take good images. Sorry, but if your images suck, it's you.
75% of my images are shot on a DSLR (5DSR), the rest on mirrorless (mixture of Sony and Canon)
There are many things the DSLR does a lot better right now, if I want to ensure fast autofocus, fast tracking of moving subjects or I simply need 50 megapixels (which isn't really anything to do with the mirror), then I go for the 5DSR.
There are plenty of other reasons for using the mirrorless. I'm pretty sure the mirrorless will reach and surpass the level of focus speed and tracking that existing DSLRs do pretty soon. They have the advantage of having the full image data available to the CPU for processing, so if you're tracking a bird in flight the system of the future knows it's a bird, it knows that the head needs to be kept in focus, and if a future system does what it should do, and your lens can keep up, every shot you take of that bird in flight will be in focus. We already have focus modes for mirrorless where the eyes are detected and kept in focus. You simply can't do that with a DSLR, unless you run it in live view mode, but guess what that is...
For now, mirrorless has some catching up to do, and there are still things a traditional DSLR does better. But mirrorless has the potential to not just catch up but overtake the DSLR on pretty much everything except battery life (can't fight physics)
I wonder in ten years time how many here will be using DSLRs still?