OK you camera guys I just saw the
Nikon Z series video. Pretty darn interesting but it doesn't explain how the mirrorless SLR works. Any of you guys know?
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Back in the early days they used a partially silvered mirror -- like the famous mirrors in interrogation rooms -- to send light to the viewfinder and to the film when the shutter opened.
Now they use electronic viewfinders fed from the image recording device and send the image information to the recording media when the shutter is pressed.
Which is better depends a lot on how much you spend and your personal preference between optical and electronic viewfinder.
After 50 years of dealing with a mirror I'm not ready to change -- especially when the new cameras are several times more expensive than what I'm using.
But I may change my mind by the time I'm ready to upgrade again.0 -
What Nikon is doing is really nothing new. Canon had a mirror that tranmitted the image to the veiwfinder and took the picture through the mirror without the mirror moving. You did lose some light transmission with that process though. Most cameras back then used a first surface mirror which had the silver on the front of the glass instead of the back. This removed the double image you get like when you look in your bathroom mirror.
I have a Panasonic Lumix that uses a CCD to transmit the image to the veiwfinder or a screen on the back of the camera. When the shutter release is pressed the image is stored in memory where you can change settings to improve or change the final picture. Mine will also take a video using the same technique. I bought this camera back in 2007.
This is what Nikon is doing.0 -
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/kodak-brownie-camera/
Digital Brownie for the purists. [:D]
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