Originally posted by Cynog Ap Brychan As far as I can see, the only real advantage of a mirrorless camera lies in the ability to make a smaller (and sometimes lighter) body, because it doesn't need to house a mirror assembly.
No. Just no. It irks me when reviewers get hung up on the whole "mirrorless = smaller and lighter" thing and assume that's the only reason for them to exist. That was one reason why the K-01 got panned. "It's mirrorless but it's not tiny, LOL! What was Pentax thinking??" I would love for Pentax to produce another K-mount mirrorless camera, with a few lessons learned.
Quote: I won't get into the argument about the relative sizes of lenses. It's often said by fanatical proponents of mirror-less cameras (I whimsically refer to them as Milcsops) that the EVF shows what the sensor is seeing. But all it really does is duplicate what is on the rear LCD, and DSLRs have one of these, so users get the best of both worlds.
Right up until you step outdoors in the sunlight, and then you can't see a damn thing on it.
Quote: And I won't yield to the argument that the rear EVF is hard to see in bright light: I have owned an Olympus OM-1 and OM-5, and Panasonic GX7 and G7 (I still have and use the Pannys, but I hated the Olympuses), and the EVF is darned hard to see in bright sunlight, too.
The EVF on my OM-D E-M5 is not hard to see in bright light. That's not an argument, just an observation. I've used it in the sun many times and never had any significant difficulty with it. (At least, no more so than with a pentaprism, where occasionally I also have to shield it from sunlight coming in at exactly the wrong angle.)
Quote: Maybe it has an advantage in poor light, but we still have the rear LCD.... I can understand people liking, or even preferring, a mirror-less system for varying reasons, but I can't understand the need of some people to rabidly attack DSLRs and forecast their imminent demise.
OK, I'm assuming that part wasn't aimed at me, because I've never made any such forecast.
I envision DSLRs going the way of. . . the fountain pen. . . the mechanical wristwatch. . . the vinyl LP record. . . All of which are still around and doing just fine, decades after their predicted demise. They just aren't dominant anymore.