Shooting with a DSLR vs a Mirrorless Camera.

If I want to feel more like a photographer, I like DSLR.
If I want to feel like a ninja photographer, I like Mirrorless.

Hi, QQ: Do you have a grip attached to you Z-camera(s)? I find the grip of the Z6 and 7 bodies too small.

I have slt I get both in one camera!

Excelente explicación

OVF for me. I have tried a few mirrorless cameras but prefer the engagement a DSLR forces me to take. Thankfully Pentax will be continuing in this technology. I just like to see the world in real terms, there are too many screens in the modern world. DSLR offers a nice balance between tech and experience. That said, the mirrorless auto-focus is looking excellent these days. Horses for courses and what ever makes you get out and create pictures.

Thank you for the deep explanation and details, great video!

@omar It is helped me. I love Nikon Color science.

Great video. I would prefer mirrorless as it provides a much smaller monitor (electronic view finder ) compared to th 3 inch monitor on DSLRs that gulps battery like anything. The optical view finder does not show what happens with the settings you change as you said. I wonder why focus points and low light performance improves with mirrorless when that only has to do with the electronics and not the mirror. A bit confused here.

Funny but informative! 🤣👍

Let say you will start today to be a professional photographer, which camera will you use mirrorless or Dslr, which model, and why?

My 750 is just more responsive than my Z6ii ... and it focuses in low light better. Z6 has some added features (focus points all across the frame for instance) but I don't really need those. Seeing your exposure beforehand is less useful than advertised. First of all, I'm almost never shooting for an OOC result, I'm shooting for the editorial process. Usually to preserve highlights - so I have to put up with composing with a darkened frame or switch to "settings do not apply". But then you invariably have bad color and in all cases you have to look at blown highlights ... at that point I just miss the natural light view of a DSLR. I miss the excitement of the natural light.

I feel like I have been sold a bill of goods frankly . Everyone began screaming "mirrorless is the future" and we thru out the baby with the bathwater ...

This was brilliant, you dropped knowledge bombs off the cuff like it was nothing. Awesome stuff

I heard the word "mirrorful" for the first time today

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I just don’t understand. I have a DSLR, and I never use viewfinder. I just check the screen, set it up, and shoot. So if I can do it with DSLR, what’s the point of showing it as it’s Mirrorless’s advantage?

Packed with information and excellent structure.

Photography is an art as we all know, if you gave me the best guitar in the world i still couldn't play it, so matter how cutting edge the camera is, it's down to the flesh hanging off the back of it!

I'm three minutes into your video and I am loving it. You make learning fun and easy to understand. Thank you!
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lol best video ive seen yet man, love your personality!! I'm still lost which I should buy for my studio though hahaha

A very good explanation concerning the difference between a DSLR vs MIRRORLESS camera more specifically with their own Viewfinder Optical vs Electronic Viewfinder .. I'm impressed ..Thanks for sharing keep up the good work 👏👍🏼

Beautiful explanation .. its different and exact the thing which i wanted to know ..

Looks like a Seiko diver watch :)

I went back to DSLRs mainly with the D850. Not only do I keep an eye on my meter in the OVF, sometimes I would check my overall scene exposure with the Lv with the histogram engaged in the frame and then go back to my OVF to compose and give my aging eye some relief, not worry about split second lag time (refresh rate of depending on an EVF), oh and also save my battery consumption, plus the 3D tracking thru the OVF in the D850 is better than any tracking on any mirrorless I have used and owned.

Very helpful breakdown. Especially coming from a film background where I don't plan to change the lighting much as I go. I always feel very frustrated (granted my Nikon D3200 is very rudimentary) with how combersum it is to change settings while trying to film since you have to be in LIV mode to film so you have to constantly be changing back and forth...or at least I've never figured out a seamless way to do it.

Your humor goes great with your wisdom. This is helpful, thank you!

Omar, I absolutely love your personality! What an amazing, informative and entertaining video.

This was super helpful!!! Are the lenses interchangeable between the two different cameras?

I apologize. I apologize a lot. sometimes I can hold the camera to my eye almost the whole day waiting for a miracle to happen and for me to click at the right moment without worrying that my batteries will die. sorry for the mirrorless photos, I have respect for advanced technology, but still a mirror does amazing things❤.

Ill bring my 70d on shoots with my R6 so I don't have to change lenses. The amount of out-of-focus shots I take on my 70d is too damn high. The autofocus system on the R6 is just so good it makes up for my lack of ability.

My question is, what effects does an EVF have on one's eyes? You can't tell me, that putting your eye a centimeter or two away from a little screen doesn't cause issues

Don't mock the pixel

I liked your sense of humour. This has a camera vs this is a camera 😂 So true!

Well, only 2 seconds into this video and I've already given up. What looked like an interesting topic turned into a freak show with an over-animated host that feels he has to act like a moron to hold people's attention. Now there's no way I could believe anything he would say.

🤣 this has a camera, this is a camera

Has evf time delay?

Dslr all day in my opinion

ahah needed this to pop up in my feeds today! today, I receive my first mirrorless. ironically, in today's facebook memories, it brought up that exactly 10 years ago I received my first dslr. it's about time for an upgrade!!

For a beginner, what do you recommend? A D850 or a Z5 or a Z50? First camera, but in love it with photography!

DSLR is where the excitement is. The work you put in to get the best picture possible. A challenge by it self.
At some point however, after years with a DSLR, that excitement just isn’t there anymore. You’re already very good at it. Now all you want, is just quick and sharper pictures. That’s where the mirrorless comes in.

Just got an R10, upgrading from a T5i and for some reason I feel like my old DSLR had much better quality/detail. The R10 is by far better at focusing and it's packed with some newer features, but I seriously feel like it lacks. I don't know if I just need to tweak it a bit more. The more experienced photographers please drop in your experience/knowledge <3

Excellent way to compare both of them. Like the way you work. Thanks for sharing

Always a good video. I remember when I first saw a video from you, you had hulk figure and where testing focus on a Fujifilm I subscribed right away I shoot DSLR cause I can't afford mirrorless lol oh well..

Thanks

Highlight weighted metering makes metering modes irrelevant in my opinion. You want to preserve the highlights anyways. If you aren't editing at all this can change, but that will give you worse photos.

Great video Omar, a good comparison. It all comes down to choice really, so many choices today in camera type, sensor size etc. You have to pick which works best for you. I still use DSLRs as I prefer the optical viewfinder over the EVF. I do own Leicas a M240 and M10P as well as a Nikon Z5 and an Olympus Pen -F digital. When i need mirrorless Leicas are always my first choice due to their size and are full frame. I find Mirrorless cameras from the other manufactures to be much larger especially the lenses in fact no real difference from DSLR full frame lenses. I only use the Z5 for casual photography and as a second or third body when I am out photographing the odd assignment or wildlife and nature, I can stuff it in my gear bag or my vest. My advice is pick what's best for you and concentrate more on mastering lighting and good composition.

I want to buy my first camera and its first time. I don't have any experience in camera. Please suggest which is a better camera for me mirrorless or dslr...

Excellent video 😮!

I looked at the best film photographer for 2023 , makes you look like a cheap sales person selling BS that means nothing