Mirrorless vs. DSLR Poll

[Refurb7]

Why would I want a crop camera with a battery-sucking laggy-draggy-in-low-light EVF for $1000 when for just a little more I can get a full-frame camera (6D) with a big, beautiful, real-time optical viewfinder? A mirrorless camera has to offer some really compelling advantages in order to make me dump my DSLRs. So far, none of them have succeeded.

 

[rrcphoto]

an 80D based EOS-M would suck inflamed oozing monkey nuts.

god knows why anyone would want it.

the M3 is already bad with color casting because of angles of incident.. yes, let's go make it worse with a even more complicated sensor.

then we have battery life .. the damned thing wouldn't even get to 200 shots with a LP-E17 battery.

The problem is that AvTvM lives in his own patented AvTvM Universe™

if canon actually spent a smidgen of effort on the M3 and fixed the freaking firmware of all the stupid-assed bugs, and did some optimization along the way, it actually would be a nice, small fairly well rounded camera.

 

[AcutancePhotography]

AvTvM keeps saying there is a huge market for a mirror-less camera with the functionality of the 80D.

Perhaps the more cogent question is why do you care so much about what AvTvM says?

People have different opinions. Nothing will change that.

 

[Loswr]

People have different opinions. Nothing will change that.

True. Some people have the opinion that Earth is flat. Maybe AvTvM should register fullframemirrorlessmarketishugesociety.com – after all, the flat earth society has a website, too.

 

[AcutancePhotography]

I just think that the photography community would benefit if we all paid a little less attention to what other photographers do/don't do or say.

 

[Orangutan]

People have different opinions. Nothing will change that.

True. Some people have the opinion that Earth is flat. Maybe AvTvM should register fullframemirrorlessmarketishugesociety.com – after all, the flat earth society has a website, too.

The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan is credited with the quote "everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."

 

[Loswr]

The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan is credited with the quote "everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."

I agree. But from that truism, it does not follow that everyone's opinion is equally valid.

 

[Orangutan]

The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan is credited with the quote "everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."

I agree. But from that truism, it does not follow that everyone's opinion is equally valid.

I assume you mean opinions predicated on wrong facts.

 

[IglooEater]

The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan is credited with the quote "everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."

I agree. But from that truism, it does not follow that everyone's opinion is equally valid.

I assume you mean opinions predicated on wrong facts.

Predicated on wrong facts, incorrect epistemology, formal errors, or personal bias.

All opinions are equally valid-as opinions. This does not makes them facts. They are of only subjective value, not objective consequence.

Unfortunately opinion/fact is a slightly false dichotomy, as popularly defined, and there are a lot of gray zones.

This is an interesting read in the New York Times I ran across a while ago: http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/opinionator/2015/03/02/why-our-children-dont-think-there-are-moral-facts/?referer=

 

[IglooEater]

Answering in the spirit of OP's question, the 80D. As there is one feature a mirrorless camera by definition, will not have. And that is an optical viewfinder. It might be possible to create a hybrid dslr with a liveview function in the ovf with mirror flipped up, but the converse is not possible with a mirrorless.
Coming from the 60D, I've only wanted my (camera) body to be larger, never smaller. So I might go so far as saying I'd take it all in a 5D IV package.

Now, this all stands until a mirrorless camera is released with real advantages over a DSLR.