Nikon D780
£2,199/$2,299
The last hurrah for the DSLR, or a sign of things to come?
The launch of the Nikon D780 will reignite a long-running debate T about mirrorless versus DSLR cameras. It might even blur the boundaries.
Like last year’s Canon EOS 90D, the Nikon D780 is staging a counter-attack against the advancing hordes of mirrorless cameras. It takes crucial mirrorless technology from Nikon’s Z 6 to produce a kind of hybrid camera that offers the best of both worlds: an optical through-the-lens viewfinder, but the high-performance Live View AF and video features of a mirrorless.
Traditionally, DSLRs offer optical viewing but compromised (slow) Live View autofocus. Mirrorless cameras offer fast, hybrid on-sensor phase-detection AF but compromise with an electronic viewfinder (although many see it as an advantage, not a compromise).
However, there’s been no technical reason why DSLRs shouldn’t have the same on-sensor Live View
