Future of my gear

[Derrel]

I'll just put this thought out there. We are all going to have to go to mirrorless eventually. That's a fact and that is where things are headed.

Perhaps but let me throw out the fact that, at work (we make E-beam lithography tools), we still have a few floppys and USB-floppy drives to read them with. I'm also looking at one of our vacuum-system PC's and it has an internal floppy drive.

I'm married to my D3 and D4 along with the glass. BUT...if I were to be just starting out, I would go with a mirror-less camera. I love the absolutely blazing frame rates you can get, the size factor isn't important to me. I also feel that this is the way a digital camera should be made, it never made sense to me to emulate the way a film-camera worked.

Sure and there are still plenty of film camera's around too, but the direction is mirrorless whether we go kicking or screaming or jump in with both feet.

I remember the days when we were all going to switch to LaserDisc for our movies. Instead we stuck with VHS for another 15 years. Sometimes an inferior technology remains the standard.

 

[RVT1K]

I'll just put this thought out there. We are all going to have to go to mirrorless eventually. That's a fact and that is where things are headed.

Perhaps but let me throw out the fact that, at work (we make E-beam lithography tools), we still have a few floppys and USB-floppy drives to read them with. I'm also looking at one of our vacuum-system PC's and it has an internal floppy drive.

I'm married to my D3 and D4 along with the glass. BUT...if I were to be just starting out, I would go with a mirror-less camera. I love the absolutely blazing frame rates you can get, the size factor isn't important to me. I also feel that this is the way a digital camera should be made, it never made sense to me to emulate the way a film-camera worked.

Sure and there are still plenty of film camera's around too, but the direction is mirrorless whether we go kicking or screaming or jump in with both feet.

I remember the days when we were all going to switch to LaserDisc for our movies. Instead we stuck with VHS for another 15 years. Sometimes an inferior technology remains the standard.

Which reinforces my point. There is a lot of inertia to overcome before a new wave takes over.
My desktop PC at work is still running 7 so I can use the Windows Virtual PC to emulate XP since a communications tool I need requires it. And the vacuum-system PC I mentioned earlier is running Vista (??!!) because that is what the vacuum software was written for and there is no real benefit (or resources) in changing it.

I have no doubts that, one day, the major manufacturer's product lines will be down to one DSLR with the remainders all mirror-less.

 

[nmoody]

I remember the days when we were all going to switch to LaserDisc for our movies. Instead we stuck with VHS for another 15 years. Sometimes an inferior technology remains the standard.

Laser Disc, Betamax and HD DVD we all techs that were superior to their competitors but lost due to corporate backing. I still think mirrorless will win out but the question is how long it will take.

It more depends on how quickly camera makers turn down their DSLR's. Due to the lens availability of DSLR and existing collections I think customers will want to stick with DSLR as long as camera manufactures keep making camera bodies. The Mirrorless bodies are not so much better that we feel we have to move to them, but does make people like me question continuing to invest in DSLR.

So I think Nikon in this instance can dictate themselves when users move over to Mirrorless by just stopping manufacturing of DSLR bodies. This would move new and users with money to spend over to Mirrorless. As mentioned there will be tons of holdouts.

 

[mjcmt]

I was hesitant moving to Nikon mirrorless for 3 reasons...the cost of a Z body is much more costly, I have to change all my lenses to Z or add size w/ the adaptor, and I think Nikon needs a few generations of the Z cameras to tweak it. Lastly I'm getting fantastic results w/ a 24mp sensor on D750, probably more than I really need.

 

[nmoody]

Turns out the local camera shops site was out of date and they dont have the D750 anymore for rent nor any in stock. This isnt too surprising. So placed the ordered for a used one from Keh, pretty excited for its arrival.

Thanks again for all you suggestions and knowledge. I feel much better about this direction than where I was originally looking.

 

[greybeard]

For the type of pictures you like to take, you don't need the latest focus system or high frames per second rapid shooting, the D610 will more than do the job and will give you a nice boost in IQ.