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<blockquote data-quote="Ray Sachs" data-source="post: 192415" data-attributes="member: 365">My &quot;first&quot; camera was mirrorless but it was waaaaaaaay before the age of EVFs or LCDs or anything else we attribute to mirrorless today. My first &quot;real&quot; digital camera was mirrorless, though, and that's pretty much all I shot for about four years. I had the same apprehensions that you do about DSLRs and I think some of them are legitimate. But when I actually picked one up and started using it with relatively small prime lenses, I found out I liked it. A lot. I see things like OVF vs EVF to be tradeoffs rather than one being &quot;better&quot; than the other. I can envision a perfect &quot;hybrid&quot; camera but I have no idea when or if one will be possible. I expect mirrorless will continue to evolve and make DSLR's irrelevant at some point. But in the full frame world, we're not close to that point yet (for APS, I don't think we're far from it - if I was going to shoot APS I'd still be shooting mirrorless of some sort). So, I'm not sure you're right. You weren't in my case. I think it's just a matter of deciding what matters to you and finding the right system for that. I had a strong bias against DSLRs and assumed mirrorless was the only way I'd want to go. Turned out I was wrong but it took trying one out to realize that.-Ray</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ray Sachs, post: 192415, member: 365"] My "first" camera was mirrorless but it was waaaaaaaay before the age of EVFs or LCDs or anything else we attribute to mirrorless today. My first "real" digital camera was mirrorless, though, and that's pretty much all I shot for about four years. I had the same apprehensions that you do about DSLRs and I think some of them are legitimate. But when I actually picked one up and started using it with relatively small prime lenses, I found out I liked it. A lot. I see things like OVF vs EVF to be tradeoffs rather than one being "better" than the other. I can envision a perfect "hybrid" camera but I have no idea when or if one will be possible. I expect mirrorless will continue to evolve and make DSLR's irrelevant at some point. But in the full frame world, we're not close to that point yet (for APS, I don't think we're far from it - if I was going to shoot APS I'd still be shooting mirrorless of some sort). So, I'm not sure you're right. You weren't in my case. I think it's just a matter of deciding what matters to you and finding the right system for that. I had a strong bias against DSLRs and assumed mirrorless was the only way I'd want to go. Turned out I was wrong but it took trying one out to realize that. -Ray [/QUOTE]

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