The Very First Mirrorless Camera Was a Gem Made by Epson. Yep. Epson.
By 2010, the mirrorless camera had become a model on the rise, with Sony, Olympus, and Panasonic each pushing their new compact interchangeable-lens systems on the world. But the very first mirrorless camera came years before, made by a company known mostly for printers. Epson announced the RD1 digital rangefinder in March of 2004, making…