Originally posted by Kharan The LV button is awfully placed in both consumer and high-end bodies
Agreed.
I still cannot understand how to simultaneously hold the camera with my grip hand, look at the LCD and interact with the LCD with my (same) grip hand, such as when changing focus points - but that is a visualization issue I suppose. I actually can't really understand how to interact with the LCD on a tripod unless there is a bottom-hinged LCD, but I am admittedly old enough that thumbing isn't an acquired skill set.
In your generous response to my question comparing the button utility of the two cameras your references to touch LCD seem to favor LV use, which I have always conceded is appropriate - but I don't use LiveView, so we have a different issue to unpack before we can really discuss touch screen (that is meant to be taken with a touch of humor).
Right along I've said I don't mind if touch screen is available - for that matter I don't mind if anything anyone's heart desires is
available - so long as I am not compelled to change the way I interact with the camera.
For me, touch is an inferior interface. It isn't necessarily better just because other people say it is necessarily better.
Saying I disagree with you does not make me a Luddite. That aspersion should be reserved for digital technology altogether, and would more appropriately be ascribed to artisan analog lab technicians. Rather I prefer not to be told what hammer I must use - and in so doing that I must change the way I grip a hammer and strike a nail - because younger carpenters never learned the methods I did in my youth. Please don't disparage my experience, my learned preference and please don't force me to change the way I use the tool.*
* in reality I will eventually be forced to change the way I use the tool because manufacturing efficiency will trump user preference. Mechanical buttons are more expensive to assemble and prone to mechanical breakdown. Digital switches (touchscreen is a digital switch) is less expensive to produce and less prone to individual breakdown - though catastrophic failure is - well - catastrophic. My 2-year-old phone is about to head for the dustbin because the screen is losing touch sensitivity.