>Nikon and Canon both thought mirrorless was a toy and both of them made shitty cameras that are basically point and shoot with interchangable lenses.
I hope you realize that live-view shooting was essentially turning a dslr into a mirrorless one (caveat obvious OVF/EVF differences). Canon's dual pixel AF tech is still miles ahead of Sony's PDAF when it comes to low light focusing, and video AF. Each pixel on a canon sensor can be used for AF as well as imaging. Sony uses masked pixels which limits them because they canno't mask too many pixels for fear of IQ degradation, and having fewer AF pixels limits them in low-light focusing.
>Both Nikon and Canon have realized their mistakes and recognized mirrorless is serious business and is the future. Nikon has scrapped the Nikon 1 line and started making Nikon Z, which is a super pro/prosumer oriented mirrorless lineup with a full frame sensor. Canon hasn't scrapped the old mirroless line but is pushing the RF mount lineup which is also full frame.
Or rather, like mature businesses, they realized that they could keep making money with DSLRs and slowly milk them dry and then ramp up mirrorless and make money there too.
>One thing of note is that Sony has opened up the E mount spec and allowed 3rd parties to create lenses.
That's because Sony had no expertise in making high quality professional grade lenses and teamed up with Zeiss and others to help them get up to speed initially.
I hope you realize that live-view shooting was essentially turning a dslr into a mirrorless one (caveat obvious OVF/EVF differences). Canon's dual pixel AF tech is still miles ahead of Sony's PDAF when it comes to low light focusing, and video AF. Each pixel on a canon sensor can be used for AF as well as imaging. Sony uses masked pixels which limits them because they canno't mask too many pixels for fear of IQ degradation, and having fewer AF pixels limits them in low-light focusing.
>Both Nikon and Canon have realized their mistakes and recognized mirrorless is serious business and is the future. Nikon has scrapped the Nikon 1 line and started making Nikon Z, which is a super pro/prosumer oriented mirrorless lineup with a full frame sensor. Canon hasn't scrapped the old mirroless line but is pushing the RF mount lineup which is also full frame.
Or rather, like mature businesses, they realized that they could keep making money with DSLRs and slowly milk them dry and then ramp up mirrorless and make money there too.
>One thing of note is that Sony has opened up the E mount spec and allowed 3rd parties to create lenses.
That's because Sony had no expertise in making high quality professional grade lenses and teamed up with Zeiss and others to help them get up to speed initially.