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Good points, but the market is dying for DSLRs. I wince each time I use mine for the terrible wifi capability, the awful OS, etc. Why can't it be modernised? Be
by sofaofthedamned 8y ago
Good points, but the market is dying for DSLRs. I wince each time I use mine for the terrible wifi capability, the awful OS, etc. Why can't it be modernised? Because Canon and Nikon won't do it.
- bootloop 8y agoIts dying because the mechanical mirror in the DLSRs is not needed anymore with todays tech. So mirrorless cameras will make the game once ppl learn to not miss the click sound. They will simply get replaced with less complex and cheaper cameras.
- ghaff 8y agoOptical viewfinders are still better. And I say that as someone who has a Canon DSLR but shoots more with a Fujifilm X-E3 because it's a lot smaller and lighter. The day will certainly come when electronic viewfinders become dominant but there are still advantages to mirrors today.
- roywiggins 8y agoOptical viewfinders are great, but the tiny ones in consumer DSLRs are no fun compared to full-frame ones. Moving from a full-frame optical viewfinder in my film camera to the much smaller viewfinder in an APS-C DSLR was painful.
- ghaff 8y agoIt's not necessarily the sensor size. I never liked the Canon Rebel viewfinders but, as I recall, the higher end APS-C models were fine. (Personally, I didn't go to DSLRs before full-frame was relatively affordable and have a 5D MarkIII today.)
- toomanybeersies 8y agoDSLRs have terrible WiFi because there is little demand for it. SD cards are interchangeable, and slot into your computer for a reason.
- BeetleB 8y agoI want to view the photo on my phone while on site - not when I get home.
- dboreham 8y agoMy Canon M5's WiFi actually "just works" and does what you want : view and download images to the phone in the field. It also uses the phone's GPS to geotag images. This is with an Android phone -- the workflow isn't as smooth with iOS apparently because Apple doesn't allow apps to drive the WiFi association. The phone maintains a BT connection to the camera and uses that as a side channel by which it coordinates an on-demand WiFi association. Previous generations were not so easy to use -- my 6D does work but lacks the auto-connect via BT feature. Presumably the 6D2 has that though.