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Given you have raised the mirrorless question again, what is the spec that might work, potentially 'fixing' the issues of forerunner mirrorless cameras? I have zero experience of mirrorless except for my old Nikon P3 tiny sensor camera.
It seems the viewfinder and battery life has been the bugbear so far, obviously Nikon will be acutely aware of that, with people like Eric and many others who bravely went over to the Fuji system, returning to conventional DSLR's.
Is it horses for courses, or will Nikon produce a viable versatile camera which will satisfy the vast majority of users needs.
I have read that the Mirrorless sensor is always on, hence the short battery life, surely that's an easy fix. Just have it come on on a half press of the shutter release or some similar arrangement?
A D850, which already has an electronic, silent shutter, without the pentaprism? Or just without the mirror, have a large screen lying flat, below the pentaprism?
And then... What about the mount, F or ??? That is the 64 million dollar question.
For me there needs to be 3 fundamental changes...
1. Batteries that last 3x as long as current cells or electronics that don't waste power as much as mirrorless currently do. I need to have at least 500 shots per battery.
2. Solving viewfinder freeze....the image taken stays in the viewfinder till the buffer? clears. So while you are admiring the shot you just took...the subject has changed or moved away. You then have to find and acquire it again for a second shot. The only part solution I found was to shoot in AFC and machine gun the subject with an old time flicker movie effect in the viewfinder....then throw away 20 duplicate shots. This inevitable added to battery drain and reduced resultant shots/ battery.
3. Make it feel like a Nikon DSLR. Surely they can adopt the ergonomic design we know and love in a lightweight body? The D500 is not that different to the Fuji XT2 wieightwise. I do not see the need to combine retro design and mirrorless? It's taken years of effort to get away from a 'brick in the hand'. I want a mirrorless to feel like a Nikon DX body.
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Eric