Farewell to the DSLR camera
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.
Nikon describes the article as “speculative”, saying the company has yet to make any official announcement on the matter, and that it will continue the production, sale and service of its SLR cameras. Nevertheless, there must be some basis to the leak
It seems the days of the SLR camera, the benchmark for photography for almost a century, are numbered. In an SLR camera, the viewfinder and lens access exactly the same image with direct optical vision, eliminating the need for the parallax correction that was required when the viewfinder and lens used different optics. But a mirror and a pentaprism allow the image to be viewed before, when the button is pressed, they are withdrawn by an extremely fast spring and the shutter is released. This incredibly robust mechanism, which must withstand tens or hundreds of thousands of camera shots (many more since the popularization of digital photography), is conditioned by the size of the mirror and the space required for its rotation, which means that SLR cameras tend to be large and make a characteristic mechanical sound.
Mirrorless cameras, on the other hand, take light directly from the lens to the sensor, using an electronic…
