Yet again there are more recent posts about how people sold everything, bought a mirrorless camera and achieved photographic and personal nirvana, how the DSLR is dying, dead or really rather poorly and a heavily touted current Camera Store video that comes up with the staggering discovery that us idiots who don't work as assistants in camera shops couldn't possibly have discovered for ourselves, that mirrorless cameras have really quite fast AF. To me all this smacks of a 'mirrorless inferiority complex'. That really people know that they are challenged in the camera size region, that size does matter and that they can't shake that feeling that they want to hide their pathetic little mirrorless novelty away when they are confronted with 'real photographers' with 'real cameras', i.e. those who use whopping great Canon and Nikon DSLR's.
And it's actually all rather pathetic.
Yesterday I went out with my Fuji X-T1 plus battery grip, 10-24mm and 55-200mm lenses. Now I certainly had no self-image problems because this is a seriously large outfit. As I attached my 55-200mm and zoomed it out, the person I was with said 'That's a big one!' to which I smiled and replied 'Yes the lens isn't small either!' Sorry, that's a really cheap (and old) joke but to me this sums up the whole 'I've got a mirrorless camera but I know all those DSLR users think I'm a wimp. I know my place!!' attitude that users of cameras that don't have that reassuring mirror slapping going on seem to fight so hard to banish from their minds.
