I went on a photography tour to Semporna in a group with my friends. I wanted to buy a camera to take pictures of coconut trees on the island in Semporna. Should I buy a DSLR or a mirrorless camera?

I went on a photography tour to Semporna in a group with my friends. I wanted to buy a camera to take pictures of coconut trees on the island in Semporna. Should I buy a DSLR or a mirrorless camera? What's the difference between them?

The difference between SLR, DSLR and mirrorless camera

Price

A SLR camera of the same grade is compared with a mirrorless SLR camera. A professional SLR camera is definitely better than a professional micro-SLR camera. It's a lot more expensive per item, no need to question that. It can be said that at the same price, the price of a SLR is definitely more expensive than that of a micro-SLR. Because the internal structure material affects.

Size and weight: SLRs are definitely thicker, bigger, and heavier than mirrorless SLRs, because you get what you pay for, and good things are heavy internally. For example, the lens should be longer than a mirrorless SLR, and the internal photosensitive crystal should be larger than a mirrorless SLR.

Function analysis from the perspective of photography: Micro-SLRs are mainly used for home entertainment and leisure due to their small size, light weight and beautiful appearance. SLRs are generally used for photography with thicker lenses. It is mostly used for hobbies, families, and professional business. You can play with some apertures and shutter parameters. In a word, when it comes to photography, choose SLR.

Appearance SLRs have always maintained a relatively solid, stable, and powerful appearance, and their styling is relatively deep-rooted. The shape, style, and color of the mirrorless SLR are all infused with a certain modern style. It can be said to be a commercial product that integrates art and technology.

Both mirrorless and SLR lenses can be disassembled and assembled. However, the mirrorless lens has a larger lens selection space and better compatibility than the SLR. The power of the mirrorless lens lies in the fact that the flange distance changes. It's small enough to give a lot of old lenses a new lease of life, just by adding an adapter ring. With SLRs, there are many lens mounts, and mounts of different brands are incompatible, so it is a relatively monopolistic development. Of course, SLR lenses are much more expensive than mirrorless SLR lenses.

Reflector SLR and mirrorless SLR, in the literal meaning, you can notice that SLR has an extra word "reverse" than mirrorless SLR, and this "reflective" is the meaning of reflector. Mirrorless cameras do not have reflectors. Reflector: As an auxiliary equipment in shooting, reflector is as common as flash. Using reflectors according to the needs of the environment can make dull pictures fuller and reflect good image light and texture. At the same time, using it to appropriately change the light in the picture is also very effective in simplifying the picture components and highlighting the subject. Its purpose is to reflect the light from the lens so that the light can be viewed by the human eye under the eyepiece, and it also has a function of focusing. The mirrorless camera does not have a reflector, so it can only be viewed through the LCD screen, like a digital DC viewfinder.

Summary: a. Mirrorless cameras are small in size, convenient and have a wide range of lenses. They are suitable for women, general families or amateurs. b. The SLR is large in size and heavy overall. The body and lens are relatively expensive and easy to upgrade. It is suitable for photography hobbies and professionals. We can think of a mirrorless camera as having the appearance of a card camera and being close to a SLR. A portable DC SLR with excellent image quality can be regarded as a large-scale camera with excellent image quality. According to the current development situation, in the consumer field, mirrorless cameras are expected to replace SLRs in one fell swoop. ?A company conducted a survey on consumer groups a few years ago. The question was "Why don't you choose to buy a SLR?" The answers received were mainly concentrated in the following points: 1. DSLR is too big 2. DSLR Too heavy? 3. The lens is too expensive. 4. The SLR is too professional and cannot be used. It simply means: big, heavy, expensive, difficult, etc. ? So the company adjusted its direction based on the results of the survey. In 2010, it launched an interchangeable lens camera with point-and-shoot controls, a cheap price, and a compact body. It was recognized by consumers around the world and won the A huge success. ?This company is Sony, and the cameras it launched are NEX3 and NEX5, ?Maybe you have heard of them,?Haha. When NEX5 was first launched last year, the price actually continued to rise, and it was hard to get one.? Haha. ?Off topic. ?Briefly talk about the difference between mirrorless single-lens reflex camera and SLR camera. There are not many mirrorless cameras that we can afford now, including Panasonic GF1, GF2, Olympus EPL1, Sony NEX3. The main differences between mirrorless cameras and SLR cameras are as follows: 1. There is no reflector. The reason why SLR has the reverse word is because it has a reflector inside, which is used to reflect the light that passes through the lens. Part of it reaches the human eye for framing, which is the image we see, and the other part is reflected to the phase focus. unit for focusing. The mirrorless camera cancels the reflector, which means there is no reflection of light, so we cannot see the scene directly through the lens. We must either open another viewfinder window, or adopt a viewfinder method like digital DC, through the LCD Framing. In addition, mirrorless cameras currently do not have a phase focusing unit. ? 2. Focusing performance, the focusing method of mirrorless cameras is not phase focusing, but contrast focusing. The focusing speed will be slower than phase focusing, but it is improving. The current focusing speed has been greatly improved. 3.? Image quality.

Since mirrorless cameras do not have a reflector, the body can be made very thin. For example, the flange distance of Sony's NEX series (that is, the distance from the bayonet to the CMOS) is only 18mm, while the flange distance of Sony's SLR is 44.5 mm, the thin body greatly increases portability. However, a large group of people and I had a heated debate on the professional forum of Shayingwuji. The flange distance becomes thinner, which is equivalent to the incident light projected onto the CMOS. The angle at the edge will become larger, which will affect the imaging. According to the existing CMOS design scheme, the effect of vertically incident light is the best. In other words, whether the image quality of a mirrorless camera will decline after the flange distance becomes smaller, we have been discussing this very intensely, and we still cannot come to a very convincing conclusion. However, it is true that the smaller the angle of incident light, the better. So we tentatively think that the image quality of a mirrorless camera will be inferior to that of a DSLR. 4.? Controllability. The controllability of the SLR is very powerful because it has many buttons on the body of the SLR and two dials. Because the body of a mirrorless camera has become smaller, it cannot place more buttons, and the layout of the buttons is not as comfortable as a DSLR. Therefore, the controllability of a mirrorless camera is not as good as that of a mirrorless camera. ? 5. Lens compatibility. The power of mirrorless cameras is that because the flange distance has become smaller, a lot of old lenses can be given a new lease of life. Just add an adapter ring. For example, the flange distance of the NEX is 18mm, and the flange distance of the Pentax lens is 45.5mm. As long as an adapter ring with a thickness of 27.5mm is installed in front of the NEX, the NEX can use the Pentax lens. Pentax's manual lens is very famous, so the emergence of mirrorless cameras saved a lot of old lenses. The reason why mirrorless cameras are so popular is because of their powerful adapter performance, while SLRs have a very large flange distance, so it is basically impossible to install an adapter ring. 6.?Portability. There is no doubt about this, I can carry a single point in my pocket at will, but with a SLR, I can only resist,? Haha. ? 7. Weight. Many people ignore this issue, and so do I. But the reason why I pay attention to this issue is that I took my SLR to Mount Fuji once. The backpack at that time weighed about 8 kilograms, of which 3 kilograms were my SLR and accessories! When we reached the top of the mountain, we really ran out of energy. When traveling, it is even more important to have a small and lightweight camera. ? So if you are mm, choose a mirrorless camera.

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