- Panasonic, Olympus and Sony are designing mirrorless cameras to compete with Canon and Nikon in the high-end SLR market.
- IDC forecasts that global shipments of mirrorless cameras will grow 60 percent this year to 6.43 million units, compared to an 18 percent growth rate for SLRs.
- “The challengers are hoping to gain market share from an emerging type of camera that packs high-end features into a compact design,” reports the Wall Street Journal.
- “Like SLRs, these cameras come with large sensors and interchangeable lenses that produce high-quality images. But they don’t have the conventional mirror-based viewfinders that reflect the image to the photographer’s eye. Instead, the image is digitized, allowing for a more compact body,” explains the article.
- Additionally, the mirrorless models are generally more affordable than digital SLRs.
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