Mirrorless sales closing the gap on DSLR.

For me it was all about looks. I purchased the XP1 based entirely on looks.

 

I went through my honeymoon photos today from 3 yrs ago. All I brought was an olly Em5 and an underrated 12-50 f3.5-6.3 lens. I am very happy with these and even have a few taken by passers by, a lot of the time the shutter was quite slow, but the shots are still very good.

I sold this camera a while back, but boy I am sorry now. A grand small light and great imager. I wouldn't give up dslrs yet but the M4/3 cameras are a great small system. I'll likely be in the M4/3 stats soon enough again (recently purchased a second hand unit, but this 4k photo is intriguing)

 

almost everyone has a mirrorless camera (cell phone)
soon most interchangeable lens cameras will be mirrorless
www.flickr.com/photos/mmirrorless

 

That is the reason (size and weight) that I got a m43 (Olympus OM-D E-M1) to use when I wanted something lighter than my D7200 to carry. The Nikon 1 system had limited lenses, and I did not like the add-on EVF of the V3, so I jumped ship to Olympus. The Olympus/Panasonic lenses are a GREAT line up to choose from.

I could have gotten even lighter with the E-M10 by about 90 grams, but I found a good deal on the E-M1 mk1 and went with the older top line camera.

My E-M1 + Panasonic 12-60 weighs about the same as a Nikon D3400 + 18-55 lens. So I get a better body and wider zoom range lens for the same weight. And that is 44% lighter than my D7200 + 18-40 lens. The Olympus is is coming on vacation with this old man.

 

I think that in maybe ten years time it will all be Mirrorless, glad I moved from Canon to Fuji but I did always know Fuji colours were and are great.

 

It does not surprise me. There must be lots of people like me who got tired of lugging all the DSLR gear around.

 

I’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting for Nikon to enter the segment and not protect their DSLR sales. Their high end fixed lens mirror less that they do have is lacking.

The rumors are still out here but rumors don’t equate to sales.

 

They just lost me.
I jumped ship to the Olympus for mirrorless.
Though for now, I am shooting both DX and m43.

 

If I had the spare cash and energy I would have swapped over to Fuji already. Was originally going to go to SONY but their star eater thing stopped me in my tracks then other priorities cropped up.

 

This. Exactly this.

And I fear that Nikon will end up defunct and eventually go the way of Kodak. This would cause my expensive Nikon lens collection to lose value very rapidly.

This combined with my desire to have a lighter kit for hiking/backpacking to landscape photo spots has me *seriously* considering selling off my entire Nikon kit and jumping to Fuji X series. As it stands my Nikon kit is worth enough to find a pretty inpressive Fuji kit, but I’m worried I won’t like it.. I’m not sold on EVF and I really love my D810.

I’m planning to rent and X-T2 in the very near future to help make the decision.