Originally posted by ogl Where is logic?
LCD light shows either number of faces or timer work. Right?
If there are 4 people in front of camera , it shows 4 lights. If - one, it shows ONE. if six, one will be out of focus.
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I don't see any sense in such feature. Is it for Papuan tribal people?
Well, if you use the camera with an ounce of logic (using those LEDs) it would be like this:
* you don't look at the screen from the back because the LEDs would be useless, but somehow I think LEDs on the back would have been stupid since theres a screen. Right?
* you use the camera to make a selfie or something approaching which means: wide angle, CDAF with face recognition and to help you frame, the LEDs (up to 5... I think there are 5 LEDs) will let you know how many faces there are.
* Which means you can correct the framing even thouth there's no articulated screen.
Or like this:
* you put the cam on tripod for a group shot, set up the timer, get with the others (of course you already checked the framing, huh..)
* you can see the LEDS counting to 5 before the shutter is fired and
this is actually far more precise than the single red LED accelerating but you never know if it has stopped accelerating or not.
This is not hard to understand, is it ? Nope.
Is that necessary for any of us? Nope.
It can be disabled? Yes.
Should we bitch about it even though none of us will buy this cam? No.
Should we be happy because Ricoh tries to get its user base larger? Yes.