>>3202517> You obviously haven't used a D-SLR in the past few yearsI shared this comment with a friend of mine and we had a good laugh about it.
I primarily shoot with a 5D Mark III. It's not too loud. It's even got a special silent mode where it's even quieter.
I just bought a Fuji X-T1 to play around with, and it's got an electronic shutter mode that is *silent*. Like, so silent that it's weird. I always turn on the mechanical shutter by default just because it's so weird to have a camera so quiet.
I've also used a Canon 70D, Nikon D7000, and Nikon D3100 extensively and, sure, their shutters aren't *that* loud... until you're somewhere quiet and it suddenly sounds like a goddamn jackhammer. I love my 5D3, but I'm damn sure packing my Fuji next time I'm shooting a poetry reading or a quiet dance performance.
> These are not really problems if you know how meters work and you've had enough practice.Blah blah blah "You can work around these problems if you know what you're doing". Sure, but you can also just, you know, not have the problems in the first place.
It's more like I'm arguing, in a world where automatic and manual transmissions cost the same and automatic gets better fuel economy, that automatic has some significant advantages.
>[citation needed] re: people in general seeing size/weight of DSLRs as a disadvantageEvery single time you see someone commenting that weight and size are a disadvantage of DSLRs, understand that they're saying that they personally find that to be a disadvantage. They're not saying "I prefer a big bulky heavy camera, but I know everyone else likes them small and light, so whatever". They're saying "Mirrorless is nice because the cameras are smaller and lighter".
Note that this comes up in every discussion of the relative merits of the two styles of camera. And in every review of the two styles of camera.
Note that you almost never hear anyone saying "I prefer DSLRs because they're big and heavy".
