IMO, every sold Canon or Nikon FF mirrorless body will be most often a Sony lost sale, not a DSLR lost sale. Currently, there is only one conventional choice for FF mirrorless: Sony. It will be good to have more choices.
I agree with Roger Deakins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfYeS_20dXo that he doesn’t care if it’s an I phone or an Arri. Every camera has it’s place, but if you know it’s limitations and advantages, anybody that is any good can make excellent images. Not pixel count down to the micro level, because that doesn’t interest me or adding 4 more stops of lattitude, because I’ve always felt that every image that interests me turns into an 8 stop world.
Maybe that’s why I like ccd’s or better put lower Iso which makes you really use the light, whether it’s God’s light, arri’s or profoto.
I own mirrorless (not including the REDs) from full frame to micro 43. 99% of the time (when I use them) it’s for motion imagery, though I find the little oly’s and panasonics hold up well in stills, they seem to shoot above their specs.
I’m not knocking mirrorless, but honestly except for people like Chris B. that use them on a shift camera as a digital back, or e-commerce guys/girls that are shooting in studio, turning a gazillion shots a day plus video at the flip of a switch, I kind of don’t see the point.
Like I’ve said before, virtually every digital camera is mirrorless if you use the lcd to focus and frame. Sure the Sony A series is smaller, but so is the battery use limited and even now, I would be very surprised if any mirrorless camera will focus as well as a top end Canon or Nikon.
I think the lure of mirrorless is the size and the cost, but when I’ve run the costs of duplicating everything I carry in my Canon cases with the newest Sony’s that “will” track focus with lenses, filters, all the stuff I have to work with there is almost zero difference in price. Actually I think with the costs of top of the line Sony lenses, the new A series camera systems will be more.
But once again, this is all personal choice.
If someone made a camera for me, it would be around apsC, with a 4/3, 16x9 and super 35 crop built in that you could switch to, but still capturing the full sensor crop. The viewfinder would be optical with a clip on evf as an option and every lens would have some stabilization and the camera would track focus in still and motion as well as the 1dxII.
But that’s just me.
Bottom line we have a lot of tools to work with, even film.
IMO
BC