agierke said:
thats great for the type of photography he shoots...but let me see him try to shoot a full wedding with that rig or a heavily scheduled fashion shoot or sports....
mirrorless is a neat technological development but i don't see it ever replacing entirely the convenience of looking through an OVF and being able to see and react quickly to your subject matter.
call me old school....
Author of article: "This isn't for sports or wildlife and its not full frame so it doesn't work well for low light"
The internet: "Yeah, but let me see him use that setup for sports! Lol mirrorless, amirite?!"
jasonsim said:
Help me understand...how is a mirrorless camera better?
It does the same things for him that DSLRs do except in a smaller, lighter package. This is explained pretty clearly in the article.
jasonsim said:
Needs an adapter to use larger full frame sized lenses? What is the advantage of the small sized mirror-less camera if you don't have all the small sized lenses to go with it? Seems like a kludge!
That's just Sony. Olympus, Fuji, and even Samsung have pretty decent native lens lineups. Not as much choice as DSLR but, well, the systems haven't been around nearly as long. That problem is a function of time and maturation of the system; it doesn't reflect one way or another on mirrorless as a technology. Also, the writer pretty clearly states that he is maintaining his lenses as a hedge in case Canon finally starts making good mirrorless products.
jasonsim said:
So you prefer the electric shutter rather than a mirror and mechanical shutter assembly? Well...at least when the mechanical one wears out, it can be easily replaced. Good luck with the electrical equivalent goes out!
Physical mechanisms fail at vastly higher rates than purely electrical components under normal use.
Global electronic shutters, which are pretty much inevitable at this point, will confer tons of advantages a mechanical shutter can never approach. Arbitrarily fast shutter speeds, arbitrarily fast sync speeds, fps burst speeds limited only by throughput, elimination of rolling shutter, etc. While this isn't available for stills cameras yet (that I know of anyway), its only a matter of time. Sony might even have one now, if you believe some of the rumors.
jasonsim said:
These arguments seem to have little merit and only serve to justify his idiotic abandonment of truly renowned systems: those being from Canon and Nikon.
Seems like its working out for that guy just fine?