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Stop pushing mirrorless: part one

It seems that instead of being a gateway to photography AP is now becoming a mouthpiece for the mirrorless brigade (AP 18 May). Hasn't it occurred to anyone there that a great many photographers prefer an optical viewfinder and do not need to see a ‘what you see is what you get' experience? Digital is hardly the challenge film was to work with. Every week it feels like reading a fan letter to Sony. Not a dedicated photographic publication but an advertising pamphlet for a technology that would seem more

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