Originally posted by Tony Belding 50 years from now? Man, it has already begun! Today's mirrorless systems are a better option, not for everyone, but for some subset of photographers. Mirrorless cameras have their beachhead established, and it's only going to grow as the technology continues to improve...
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Hold on, just a minute, please.
I think you are confusing means and ends: mirrorless technology is just one possible way to take photographs, and you think that is an end in itself?
No — the end is the remarkable photographic experience, the excitement, enjoying the creative moment, artist's selection of an emotion, and is already perfectly achievable with SLRs, DSLRs, rangefinders, view cameras, etc.
Apostles of mirrorless behave like deprived and handicapped, and their way is "the way of future".
Calm down son, you are chasing wild geese. The clear pentaprism already connects me with reality I want to experience when taking a photograph — and much more intimately so than any electronic display that sits in between my eyes and the world I want to experience with my naked eyes.
If you think the picture you see on the screen, or printed out on paper is the only end product in the photographic experience, then think twice — that is just a BYPRODUCT. The real product is somewhere within.