>>3803682Live view is older than mirrorless, troll.
No one is "just using" the LCD for taking pictures, but there's pictures you can only take with the LCD. Furthermore, mirrorless cameras started coming with articulated screens much later than DSLRs. And most of the time, the implementation is horrible.
See Z5, Z6, Z7, Z7 II. In fact, all mirrorless Nikon cameras offer tilting screens only instead of the superior swivel option. Tilting screen gets in the way of a tripod or a speedlight, depending on whether it goes up or down.
Sony cameras are all tilt too except for the horrible SLT ones and some their newest models, a7S III and a7C.
Canon EOS M models are all tilt too, but EOS R ones have the swivel screen. The feature started on compact P&S (PowerShot Pro70 back in 1998), then DSLR got it and only trickled down to MILC much later, because of market demand I presume. MILC was created to save on manufacturing costs, not to give the consumer better tech. They sold it as that, but it's a downgrade in most aspects.
>I do this all the time on a MILC, because the EVF gives me all the information as I need it, without needing the LCD revealed. Also, when my eye isn't up to the EVF, buttons and exposure dials become inoperative (with the exception of the exposure bias dial) while the LCD is closed. Meaning, I can't accidentally change a setting when I'm not about to take a picture.That wasn't his point. Your EVF consumes battery, it doesn't save it like reversing the LCD does.
