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>be old school slr film boomer that dropped out of photography late '90s
>decide to get back in the game and start working with digital photography several years ago
>go through point n shoot, bridge and expert cameras working towards professional DSLR
>finally get dslr
>not fully satisfied because no focus screens
>forced to enjoy dslr as they are
>"oh well. guess that's' just how it is. at least they have optical view finder"
>decide early mirrorless is stupid because no viewfinders
>viewfindewrs finally start appearing on mirrorless
>don't bother because already have dslr gear
>finally get around to using a modern mirrorless with viewfinder, proper focus magnification. focus peaking, live histogram, zebra and live preview
>absolutely blow away
>can't understand why all of these features weren't in the early 2000s bridge cameras
>forced to realize how much time and effort wasted fucking around with trash camera technology, raw files and photoshop
I hate the camera industry so much its unreal. Corporations have literally wasted two decades selling utter garbage. There is absolutely no reason for japan to not have had 100% of modern mirroless tech features in all of its high end cameras by the early 2000s. There has literally been zero progression in photo tech the past twenty years besides adding features that could have been in cameras twenty years ago. Sure there have been improvements in sensor and processing tech. Actual features and options that make taking photos in a sane and logical process in camera have not appeared until very recently in the history of digital cameras. These features didn't appear because of some shift in technology. They appeared because japan finally got off its ass and got around to putting them in cameras. Shameful.
