Even though SLR cameras adopted digital image sensors as far back as the 1980s, other key components have remained defiantly mechanical. Mirrorless cameras removed the mirror and optical viewfinder ...

More importantly the shutters are complicated and expensive to make, and finicky sods to keep running smoothly, not to mention seriously restricting the possible top speed of the lens; and the need to ...

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