Originally Posted by
ricktas
When fixed lens bridge cameras first appeared, they were often referred to as prosumer cameras. At that time point n shoot compacts were for consumers and DSLR were for professional/serious photographers.
Give it another ten years and what we call mirrorless now could be replaced by something else that bridges between formats once again. After all 10 years ago, the Nikon D200 was the pinnacle of camera tech. and only 5 years before that, the first camera was put into a mobile phone. The first photo ever taken was in the 1820's so the past 10 years is really only a very small part of the development of cameras. If we are spending so much time on defining what a camera is, then perhaps we all need to get outside and use them instead.