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@atourgates Beats the usual BRAND fanboyism, no? I think the end of the SLR after 50 years thanks to new technology (sensors) and innovation is fairly significant in the history of photography. I loved my dSLR. It gave me 10s of thousands of great pics, but the writing is on the wall (and that's not a bad thing). Wonder how long before we see a second 35mm full frame mirrorless camera..

@Ziltoid the omniscient Yeah I don't see any sports shooters giving up their bricks for now. There is the small advantage of losing the heavy, expensive glass prism and the slap+vibration of the mirror swinging up. That matters more to some people than others.

@ALwin But what you see through the optical finder isn't what gets recorded by the sensor. Yes it's real-time, but it's only an approximation of the end result. And isn't the final file or print the whole point? An EVF gives you a REAL preview of the result.

@ehisforadam
@moijk
Yes - I did say the BEGINNING of the end ;-)

I shed my SLR gear a few weeks ago on ebay but I can see why most people will stick with it for now. SLRs are going to be around for many years.

@Rockchan Correct, if a mft and aps-c sensor have the same number of pixels the mft is obviously going to have higher density (smaller photosites). However thus far that hasn't been the case: eg the 550D is 18mp and the E-PL1 is 12mp.

MFT is sometimes described as APS-C minus the "ears".

@Rockchan The sensor isn't "smaller". The Olympus E-P2 has LOWER pixel density than the Canon 550D. The micro four thirds sensor has a different aspect ratio (4:3 instead of 3:2) which allows for a smaller imaging circle and hence a larger "crop factor". The sensors in these mirrorless cameras are not smaller than APS-C - at least not in any way that relates to Image Quality.

@s2m0 I can't see any technical reason it should suffer.. it's up to the manufacturers to maintain the same high standards they deliver to with SLR cameras. Early days still but this is definitely the future, sooner or later.

Beginning of the end for the SLR.

@wemustcontrolpeople also, you miss subtle jokes.

Yawn - another SLR. Still doing it wrong.