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https://medium.com/enrique-dans/farewell-to-the-dslr-camera-e1bcf0d8f9ad
"A brief note in Nikkei Asia, later denied by Nikon, announces the end of the development of new DSLR or reflex camera models by the company, to be replaced by mirrorless cameras..."



ejeffrey:
Not surprising, mirrorless have already taken over the market.  Other than battery life there is no real advantage to DSLR over mirrorless from a technological standpoint and lots of advantages for mirrorless.

nightfire:
The demise of optical viewfinder cameras was to be seen about 10 years ago. Thom Hogan in his blog was one of the first to note and elaborate about the lack of understanding the established camera brands had to new challenges, especially for the role of software and a workflow.
Meaning: Most of the mainstream companies had really lost the contact to the customer and the way stuff has to be handled, and instead of listening to the trends, they continued to produce cameras with a technical better image quality, but otherwise no changes.
In the meantime, the lower end market acutally has been assimilated by smartphones, the whole area where workflow really matters still is not understood well by nearly all traditional camera manufacturers.

As a Nikon shooter for a long time, I still have some analog equipment with me, and what is nice that Nikon managed to be able to use lots of the old lenses from as far back as 1977 on modern DSLR, which can be benefical with some special setups. But, the writing was on the wall for a long time, and now Nikon as one of the last established companies has successfully turned to mirrorless with their Z-Series, and finally made lots of things right, after some "dipping the toe half-heartedly into the water" with the Nikon 1 Series failed miserably.
Actually, with the recent introduction of the Z30, Nikon has a full portfolio of cameras at their hands, from entry-level to pro body, and the lens setup (Note: Nikon always was an optical company, not necessarily a camera menufacturer) is something that begins to be useable for most needs. Still something in the DX/crop sensor setup that is desireable, but beginning to be reasonable.

Regarding optical viewfinders: They have still some value over mirrorless cameras in special situations, but as mirrorless is getting better at this stuff, it actually is more than useable in everydays shooting. For sports and wildlife photographers an optical viewfinder still has no lag, and in case of flash photography (fill flash etc.) there are moments where a mirrorless camera still does not displays the environment right. Also the battery life is better, which matters especially in nature photography when you have to pack light.

mawyatt:
Like you have been a Nikon user for a long time and still have a D500, D800, D800E, D850, Z7 and a bunch of F mount lenses and only one Z mount lens. We've used all these bodies with our pioneering chip imaging work over the past couple decades. Now find we are always "reaching" for the Z7 rather than any of the F mount DSLRs!!

Nikon has done a nice job with the newish Fresnel type longer lens. The 300mm F mount we have is superb and suspect the new Z mount types should be quite good as well.

Any future DLSR purchases will be mirrorless and likely Nikon Z type camera body or Z type lenses.

Best

bd139:
Yep. Z50 here. Love it. Absolutely perfect as a travel camera. Thing I was shocked at is how good the kit lenses are now. And also the low light performance.

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