WHY INVEST IN AN INTERCHANGEABLE LENS CAMERA?
Some of the newest camera models available today are interchangeable lens cameras (ILCs). The market has expanded with variants from all the leading camera manufacturers since the first Interchangeable Lens Camera, the Epson R-D1, was released in 2004. But what exactly is an ILC, and how does it compare to other camera types like compact point-and-shoot cameras and DSLRs? What are Interchangeable Lens Cameras? As its name implies, an Interchangeable Lens Camera is a kind of camera system that takes interchangeable lenses. The crucial difference between a DSLR and an Interchangeable Lens Camera is that a DSLR contains an internal mirror for the viewfinder, but what we typically refer to as ILCs are camera systems that don't. DSLRs accept interchangeable lenses, therefore it may be argued that they fall within the Interchangeable Lens Camera category. Because of this, they are occasionally referred to as MILCs (mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras). Just like a DSLR, an Interc