Prosumer & Mirrorless Cameras

Prosumer Digital Camera

Prosumer is a combination of words “Professional” and “Consumer”. This category of digital camera refers to point-and-shoot cameras for general consumer however geared with professional features and much more control over the settings.

For example: Manual Exposure settings, uncompressed RAW image quality, etc. It is also equipped with a better quality of lens and image sensor comparing to the compact cameras that gives better image quality. The more flexible control allows settings on aperture size, shutter speed that gives more room for creativity.

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It has a larger range of accessories or add-on choices including external flashes, wide-angle lens adaptor. Some models would offer similar functionalities and outlook as the Professional digital SLRs and can share accessories including shutter release cord too. These cameras are usually suggested for amateur photographers who also consider the benefits of the size and weight in comparison to larger and heavier full features digital SLRs would provide. eGlobaL offers the best prosumer cameras including:

Canon Powershot G12, Panasonic DMC-FZ100, Panasonic Lumix DMC LX5

Mirrorless Digital Cameras

Mirrorless Digital Cameras has been an emerging category of digital cameras, it sits between compact digital cameras and digital SLRs. It refers to cameras with high image quality as a digital SLR camera that its lens is interchangeable in a smaller size and lighter in weight due to is mirror-less system that optical viewfinder has been removed. Instead they are all equipped with electronic viewfinder displaying the real time image including exposure simulation on a LCD display panel on the back of the cameras. Therefore it is also called as a Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens Camera (EVIL).  These cameras normally equip an image sensor as large as an entry-level Digital SLR’s APSC or Micro 4/3 system and this gives improved image quality with less noise distortion. The Mirrorless Cameras gives the high quality of images in a compact size as a prosumer digital camera, therefore it has been welcomed by many amateur photographers and as well as professionals to become a secondary camera besides their digital SLR cameras. eGlobaL offers the best mirrorless cameras including:

Panasonic Lumix DMC GF2, Sony NEX-5, Olympus E-PL2

If you have interest in other digital products, please also take a look at our compact digital camera, DSLR, digital camcorder and lens.