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Viewfinder vs Mirrorless - What's the difference?

viewfinder | mirrorless |

As nouns the difference between viewfinder and mirrorless

is that viewfinder is a device on a camera that shows what will appear in the field of view of the lens; it helps the user target a subject, zoom and focus the 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.

viewfinder

English

Noun

  • A device on a camera that shows what will appear in the field of view of the lens; it helps the user target a subject, zoom and focus the image
  • 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