Vidgamer wrote:bfitzgerald wrote:Looks like ILC/CSC sales are again dropping hugely in the UK...AP reports
http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/ph ... with-video
At this stage it's looking like the DSLR beast is going to be around a long long time at least in Europe buyers are basically not very interested.
Making something, and making something people want are not the same thing.
Well, I don't want a DSLR if I can buy a small camera with a large sensor. The fact that DSLRs are popular is about as relevant as the fact that the Ford pickup is the most popular "car" in America for decades. No doubt that a pickup is more useful in many situations than a smaller car. And yet, I prefer a smaller car.
The DSLR doesn't have to "die" in order for mirrorless cameras to be useful and appreciated. But I would predict that DSLRs become strangely mirrorless in the future -- it's just a matter of time at this point. Whether or not you would consider DSLRs dead would be perhaps semantics.
It's not about what you or I want, but what the general public want.
I don't have a problem with mirrorless, but I see it for what it is, an alternative and in some cases it might make an ok addition to DSLR users.
What I don't see is a compelling reason for users like myself to ditch their DSLR type bodies and go for an ILC model. I just don't see the advantages.
If you need small that's great travel shooter completely understand it.
But from a practical perspective what does mirrorless offer me that I can't do with DSLR?
Bar a far smaller range of lenses. There are adaptors out there for older glass fine bargain hunters might find some use for it.
How small is small enough? If I put a flash on a mirrorless body it's unbalanced big time.
I've expressed a passing interest in Fuji in the past and I do have an interest..but
Looking at the lenses coming out that 16-55mm f2.8 (broadly equivalent to either the Sony or Tamron fast zooms)
77mm filter?
http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/Fuj ... 521-2.jpg/
Def looks quite a lot bigger than the Tamron I have. And I'd expect the price to be quite a bit higher.
Even looking at their 18-135mm lens, again bigger filter and it looks larger to me than the Sony I have, and again I suspect it's going to cost more than the other makers equivalent lenses (they all do lenses in this range now)
So where is the size advantage? Only body really.
Biggest problem is wallet. Cost of moving to something like X mount would cost me a fortune trying to replicate my current line up of lenses (they do have some interesting lenses and the 35mm f1.4 isn't a bad price)
Onto Sony they've never really developed the E mount APS-C lens range that well anyway.
I saw a NEX 6 on ebay brand new for £399, I can get it if folks pick one of those up not a bad price and a nice enough camera on a deal.
As for buying into the system I'm not seeing it, no real advantage bar MF glass adaptor users.
Same for all the ILC systems I'm just not seeing why a DSLR users (who might not necessarily be using a huge sized body anyway) would dump their current rig and lenses. Until ILC makers find a real reason to tempt people I for one remain quite unconvinced with the entire strategy.