A digital single-lens reflex camera is a digital camera that combines the optics and mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a solid-state image sensor and digitally records the images from the
Perspective view of Sony Mavica from June 1982 press release
Canon RC-701 from 1986
Nikon QV-1000C from 1988
Nikon NASA F4 back view with Electronics Box, launched on STS-48 September 1991
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A mirrorless camera is a type of digital camera. Most cameras, including smartphones, lack mirrors, but the term mirrorless is primarily used to describe digital interchangeable lens cameras.
Digital single-lens reflex camera
…DSLRs largely replaced film-based SLRs during the 2000s. Major camera manufacturers began to transition their product lines away from DSLR cameras to mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras beginning in the 2010s. In 1969, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith invented charge-coupled semiconductor devices, which can be used as analog storage…
A mirrorless camera (right) with an exposed sensor, next to a DSLR camera (left), which has a mirror in front of the sensor
Close-up of the lens mount (silver) and image sensor (red) in a mirrorless camera, showing the small gap between the lens and the sensor, with no mirror assembly
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1
Ricoh GXR