It’s not just me, either: a lot of my other pro friends are either using the heavy gear (including medium format) solely for work, and anything personal is whatever fits into a pocket. If my OM-D had phase detect AF and a few more pixels, I’d probably be using that exclusively for my professional work – in many ways, it’s more flexible than the D800E, and for 99% of intended end use, there isn’t enough difference in image quality. This may or may not come as a shock, but I’m predicting the slow death of the DSLR has already begun firstly, quality of smaller systems has caught up technology is mature enough that there are few, if any, compromises involved in using a mirrorless camera. And pretty much the only time my D800E comes out is when I’ve got a commercial job to shoot. I now routinely travel without one in fact, most of the time I do a lot of personal photography with compacts. Not long ago, my desk had three cameras for review/ testing on it (the Olympus E-P5, Leica X Vario and Sigma DP3M – none of them were DSLRs. You could still get film with relative ease, and better still, develop it. There was no mirrorless category, with the exception of Leica compacts meant serious image quality or lens quality compromises, and every serious photographer was typically also on first name terms with their chiropractor. Five years ago, while I was writing for a local photo magazine, I was mostly in charge of the ‘big’ cameras – DSLRs and the like.
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