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Camera vs Mirrorless - What's the difference?

camera | mirrorless |

As nouns the difference between camera and mirrorless

is that camera is a device for taking still or moving pictures or {{l/en|photograph}}s while mirrorless is a mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera, similar to a digital SLR, but usually made smaller by incorporating an electronic viewfinder instead of a mirror and prism.

As an adjective mirrorless is

without a mirror.

camera

English

(wikipedia camera)

Noun

(cameras)
  • A device for taking still or moving pictures or s.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Fenella Saunders
  • , title= Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. It’s therefore not surprising that most cameras mimic this arrangement.}}
  • (video games) The game or simulation.
  • * 2003 , Tom Meigs, Ultimate game design: building game worlds
  • If you're building a third-person game with enclosed or tight spaces, try to figure out up front what camera problems you will likely encounter. Use this identification process to influence the early building process.
  • * 2006 , Patrick O'Luanaigh, Game Design Complete
  • I'm talking about the way the camera flies up above the skater when you leap into the air. No one had done it before.

    Derived terms

    * cameraman * ! * on camera * off camera * cine camera or * digital camera * movie camera * pinhole camera * video camera

    mirrorless

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without a .
  • (rare) Not mirrored; unreflective.
  • * 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 47:
  • one would discover in her eyes, large, protruding and clear, that mirrorless look of polished metals which report not so much the object as the movement of the object.

    Noun

    (es)
  • (photography) A mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera, similar to a digital SLR, but usually made smaller by incorporating an electronic viewfinder instead of a mirror and prism.
  • Synonyms

    * compact system camera, CSC * mirrorless system camera, MSC * digital single lens mirrorless, DSLM * digital interchangeable-lens system camera * electronic viewfinder with interchangeable lens, EVIL