Opinion: is the age of mechanical wonders over?

Mirrorless cameras have largely taken over from DSLRs. That transition has lead to a different kind of engineering taking the lead role. Photo: DPReview I have an admission: there's just something I don't love about shooting with the Nikon Z8. Pressing the shutter and hearing the speaker go "click" just isn't the same experience as hearing and, more importantly, feeling, a mechanical shutter fly open and slam closed at 1/200th of a second. There are absolutely benefits to this approach: the e-shutter won't wear out, no matter how many times it's used, you don't have to worry about shutter shock* and the sensor never being blocked means the EVF has a constant feed of what's happening in front of the lens. Were the Z8 the only camera I shot with, I'm certain I'd grow used to it and, in time, probably come to love the experience of an e-shutter-only life. I think, though, that this mild dissatisfaction has less to do with the Z8 specifically, and a... let's not call it an issue