Originally posted by troenaas If you look at the GUI on Cell phones, Tablets, PC and what not, the GUI on DSLRs are stoneage.
Well I would already draw a line between cellphones/tablets and PCs.
While the first 2 are consumer products that need to look nice and flashy, the latter is actually used for work in some cases.
And anybody else remembers the sh*tstorm that rained down on Microsoft for their "app-like" Windows 8 surface?
The first thing everybody tried to do was getting the thing back to looking and feeling like a "real" PC again.
And I don't know of any company actually using Win8 in a professional setting yet - it's a home-PC operating system only.
Same goes for cellphone vs. DSLR - the latter is more of a tool in my account.
Originally posted by Digitalis You can't treat a camera like any other portable mass produced consumer device - it has been tried before and the real aficionados will always prefer hard programmed controls compared to soft ones. Physical tactile response from actual buttons allow professional photographers to work quickly and smoothly in stead of wasting time by needing to activate some critical function on a touchscreen or digging through menus. For me tactile interfaces are by far the most intuitive.
+1
If I want slow responses on gimmicky GUI that is flashy and colorful but does not add anything to the process of taking a picture, I will buy a smartphone.
If I want direct controls on how I take a picture (and as far as I know that's still only 4 things: shutter speed, aperture, ISO, focus), I buy a DSLR.