Originally posted by Rondec The benefits of MILCs have to do with the lack of mirror and the "benefits" of EVFs
The benefits of EVF are that you see what you get and you see the histogram, so, you could perfect your exposure or see how a B&W would render when looking through the viewfinder. That's for slow shooting because there is no way one could adjust those parameters when shooting moving subjects. When doing slow shooting (meaning there is plenty of time..), I can do exactly the same with the live view mode of my DSLR: I can tweak the exposure, I can see how my B&W looks like if I use JPEG camera presets. But, with liver view there is no way I can see what I will get after post processing my RAW files, simply because if I shoot RAW, my camera doesn't know that curves I will used to convert my RAW in lightroom or other. And, what is true for live view is also true for an EVF, there is no way I can see in the EVF what I will get after converting my RAW file. So, the argument of ËVF is What You See is What You Get is only applicable if you shoot JPEG. And, the exposure adjustment via EVF histogram is only valid if I shot JPEG directly or if I use the same curve in my RAW conversion software. If I shoot slowly, I can use live view, I don't need another camera to have an EVF. That the first thing. Now, if I shoot moving subjects, sport events , weddings etc so that I eventually need to enable AF tracking, there is no way I have enough time to look into my EVF and adjust exposure, histogram etc., I need to have the camera do that automatically for me and concentrate on framing, my DSLR already does that already.
Originally posted by Rondec lets you focus on the sensor which should eliminate the need to calibrate lenses
I'm afraid that on my 4 pentax bodies, I never had to calibrate my AF. On my K1, all AF fine tuning are set to 0. Now, if I have to calibrate my AF for a couple a fast lenses, it's not a big deal, it's done once and saved the camera, I prefer to do this and not have to spend thousands into a new system that makes my lenses inappropriate.
Originally posted by Rondec should take away camera shake caused by mirror movements
The mirror shake is removed, but the double shutter actuation increase shutter shock and can't be removed, while you can always enable MLU on a DSLR.
IF I would buy a new camera system from scratch , I could consider mirrorless if the lenses I want are available, but if I already have a DSLR equipment I'm happy with I see not point in spending that much money into equipment just because it has an EVF.
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I mean, if I would have enough budget to buy a new mirrorless system with the lenses, my images would benefit more by spending the money into a second hand medium format camera and two lenses. The EVF with the same image sensor as DSLR isn't going to improve my images, that's my point of view.