Story Highlights Mirrorless cameras don't have as many moving parts but have comparable image quality.Across the Pacific, consumers embrace compact system-based cameras.In Japan, mirrorless systems make up about 10% of the camera market In 2008, a fresh kind of camera was set to rock the world of photography, ushering in "a new era of digital imaging," as one news release put it. A handful of less-dominant camera companies, including Olympus and Panasonic, bet their futures on technology that allowed interchangeable lenses, but in a far slimmer body than a bulky, digital SLR-style camera. Today, just about every major camera manufacturer makes at least one...
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