NIKON D780
www.nikon.co.uk £2,199/$2,299
The launch of the Nikon D780 will reignite the long-running debate about mirrorless versus DSLR cameras, and it might even blur the boundaries between the designs.
Like last year’s Canon EOS 90D, the Nikon D780 is staging a counterattack 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 autofocus and video features of a mirrorless camera.
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 users 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 AF features as mirrorless cameras, and now it’s happening. Canon has been using its phase-detection on-sensor Dual Pixel CMOS
