“The D and the Z – a tale of two Nikon bodies” by Thanos Deligiannis (see his previous guest post):
To quote the great Charles Dickens, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. These, for some of us, are the times we live in as photographers in the age of the switch.
One viewfinder, two equal perceptions of reality, so different, yet both representations of the same reality. So different, yet so similar, in the same way cats and dogs are both domesticated pets.
One could find parallels to the switch from film to digital, but in this writers opinion, that (in dSRL world at least) was just two sides of the same coin.
The mirrorless switch is much more than this. It is the end of one perception of the world for another of the same. Thought the two viewfinders show the same frame, the gap is so vast between the two that commonality is merely in the name, not even in the function.
Recently my F-mount AF-S 24-70 f2.8 G ED had an accident. An accident that made me make the switch. In this accident I found two bodies, and these are their tales.
