On Monday, April 20, 2015 at 5:26:42 PM UTC+1, Dennis@home wrote:
On 20/04/2015 14:18, whisky-dave wrote:


I switched to mirrorless some years back and the day of carrying a hulking great SLR with its hulking great lenses is gone for me.

Most have gone to camera phones which are probbaly better than most SLRs were 20 years ago.

as is carrying about 10X8 plate camera, but for pros a mirror-less just inst't as good as a FF DSLR.

For a lot of pros a full frame mirror-less one is better..

no bump as the mirror goes up
faster response time
shorter time between shots

It depends on whether the viewfinder is up to the job.

I want a Sony full frame mirror-less but I am not prepared to buy one ATM..

The main advantage for me is the fact that I can pre-chimp. Instead of firing off a quick shot and then checking on the display on the camera back the eye level viewfinder shows me exactly what I will get. I'd find it very difficult to go back to a mirror and prism.

If you think pros don't use them check out Kirk Tuck's blog The Visual Science Lab.

and incidentally I have an A7.