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Old July 29th 18, 03:39 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
Savageduck[_3_]
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Default 25 days to Nikon throwing the towel as the defender of the DSLR against the onslaught of mirror-less.

On Jul 29, 2018, Carlos E.R. wrote
(in article ):

On 2018-07-29 03:08, RichA wrote:
About time. They and Canon were about as tardy to mirror-less as Disney was
to DVD.


I never understood well why a digital camera needed a mechanical mirror.


Digital cameras never did need a mechanical mirror.

It just made sense for the SLR manufacturers to engineer their analog systems
for digital conversion, so most of their development for the last 35 years
had them thinking mirrors. Unfortunately for them Olympus, Panasonic,
Fujifilm, Sony, and even Hasselblad leaped ahead in MILC development. That
left Nikon and Canon trailing by at least 3 years, and Nikon has the
additional issue of having to workout a fix for making legacy Nikkor glass
work on whatever MILC they eventually release.

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Regards,
Savageduck