Friday night creative writing

Remember the Great Megapixel Race? Time when companies were rushed to put more pixels into cameras. In year 2000 compact cameras with 'big' 2/3" sensors had just 2MP, and in 2004 the advanced 'not-so-compact' compact cameras had about 8MP. All major camera makers had top notch models with fixed lenses. Than the Great Extinction of Advanced Compacts had occurred, and it was coincided with the Rise of DSLRs. The DSLRs, the giants of the camera world, dominated on the planet. Do you want a good image quality? - get DSLR. The hegemony of DSLRs lasted for years and resulted in mass lens addiction among fellow photographers. It was not just picking up a camera, it was all about the choosing of a right system. However, some unexpected things happen. First, nearly instant renaissance of advanced compact cameras: around 2011-2012 all manufactures released 10-12MP fixed lens cameras with good lenses and UI aimed at enthusiasts. The number of pixels did non increased much over 8MP Olympus C-8080 or Minolta A1/A2 but the image quality did. It turned out that many people do like to have a small camera with a decent image quality for a casual shooting. It is simple and convenient. The other unexpected thing was a failure of mirrorless cameras to conquest the photographic world in the way of digital to film transition. It did not happen, and it probably would not happen very fast. One of the reasons is the identical media: both are digital, so there is no difference in post-shooting procedure. Compare it to film vs digital. Buy film rolls, keep several rills with you, develop film, print, put prints in album and send it to you relatives - or just copy the pictures to the computer. The only hassle was batteries but I had a spare set. In some sense, mirrorless do not offer much over DSLR cameras except for size and weigh, while loosing in battery life and continuos autofocus speed. Just to clarify: I am satisfied with the autofocus speed and accuracy on my Fuji X-E1 & XF18-55mm lens. DSLRs might be faster, but I am the limiting factor in this situation :-(