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Cost and customer preference for a more compact camera.
by Tagbert 5y ago
Cost and customer preference for a more compact camera.
- jacquesm 5y agoAnd quite importantly: lighter, and longer battery life. Displays, CPU, RAM, flashlights and storage use a ton of power, anything that can save on that is useful.
- azalemeth 5y agoIronically, those are all arguments against a mirrorless camera and towards a DSLR, swapping an EVF's circuitry and screen for five lightweight mirrors. My Pentax is built like a brick and quite sturdy, but a modern low-end Canon DSLR is amazingly light and really quite surprisingly so: the 250D is 419 g.
- jacquesm 5y agoInteresting, yes, that is a good point if the camera is 'on' more than off between shots. The DSLrs that I'm familiar with all have whopping large batteries vs the mirrorless ones that come with puny little cells.
- cozzyd 5y agoDSLR's have longer battery life unless you're constantly taking pictures (and consequently are lighter since the battery can be smaller), since the sensors is typically off (whereas in mirrorless it's constantly going to the EVF). The majority of the size of the camera is going to be in the lens anyway. Mirrorless is not going to make your telephoto any smaller· The two advantages mirrorless really has over DSLR (other than... lack of a mirror which makes it cheaper) is faster photo rates (since you don't have to move the sensor, though modern DSLRs have liveview anyway, though not through the VF), and the fact that the EVF shows the effects of ISO/exposure/etc (though again, modern DSLRs have liveview, though not through the VF).