I'd be concerned about, rather than modern versus classic, the list of things that a modern camera (e.g mirrorless brand) doesn't do as well as a so called classic DSLR, and the list of bugs.
There is this model of frequent firmware updates over unfinished firmware (with some bugs or some weird behavior), long after a new camera model was released, if that's what modern is all about, I prefer to stay classic.
I find it shocking that a modern $5000 mirrorless camera freeze when shooting more than one image at a time (remove battery to reset the camera), or that the battery drains overnight with camera switched off, or that if you rotate the camera the menu displayed on LCD doesn't rotate. So, perhaps my Pentax K1 is not modern, but at least it's "only" $2000 and works flawlessly, I mean it doesn't freeze when I burst 3 shots, and I can leave a charged battery in it for 6 month and is still fully charge when I switch on the camera and when I rotate my K1 the menu displayed at the back rotate automatically so that I can always read settings without effort.
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Originally posted by Qwntm We went past the point of "too much is not enough" for most photographers a while ago.
:-) it depends. Digital cameras are built with an approach to work around the fact that the cost of electronic image sensors increases exponentially with size.
Digital camera manufacturers favored speed over sensor size. Digital camera companies avoid increasing sensor size as much as they can because they know it would eat their profit margins. Instead, they try to increase speed of operation (burst speed, AF tracking speed) and software features (such as super-resolution, pixel shift, eye AF), because once the software is done, those features come at $0 marginal cost for every additional camera unit sold, that's were the profit is made. Quick, small sensors camera packed with software features and video features is what we are told we need to have. Nowadays, no camera manufacturer will tell us we need a large format camera to print wall sized photo print.
In film systems, the cost of film isn't even part of the cost of the camera system, the cost of making a LF film camera isn't more than making a smaller wooden camera, and in LF camera the "sensor" is so much larger that the quality of glass is almost irrelevant due to the system being mostly aperture diffraction limited (exposures f/16, f/22, f/32 ..).
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