Amped wrote:I think it's because they don't actually have to buy an expensive SLR camera, they could just get rent an SLR camera. So access to one is easier.
Maybe it's gotten easier eh? Companies stopped making the cheaper ones, it seems, because of phones. So renting first to try it out makes sense if the price of entry is high.
I think I've ranted about it before but I prefer the optical viewfinder. Although, at times shooting with an LCD screen is easier somehow (never tried an electronic viewfinder). I guess you can't call mirrorless cameras "SLR" though, just ILC - interchangeable lens camera - or MILC.
Think about it for a few seconds: how many camera manufacturers are based in Japan ?
It is difficult to decide which pictures I actually want to share but ...