Originally posted by RaduA It's human nature to believe that our personal preferences are universal but no they're not. This camera will sell like hot cakes (just like K-m before it) because it's small, cute, different from others and offers a real kicka$$ (performance+quality)/price ratio. In between the 49 out of 100 new users using a dslr for the first time that use the central point only (most of them without any intention of recompose) and another 49 out of 100 who'll use Live View stay 2 disgruntled forum users that moan about this feature not being available.
Please understand me correctly it's not like you're wrong or something just you can bet that this feature is not too popular among the users that this camera targets and including it would of meant further complications in the interface and added cost. Besides I am pretty sure that you can select via back LCD the desired point if you like and I bet it won't take very much to do that.
Radu
well, concerning the newcomers' knowledge about dslrs, you are right, but I was talking about the reviewers..
and public opinions about that camera, that otherwise would have been incredibly amazing, now, reviewers will have what to say negative about that amazing little cam.
what's the difference 5 or 11 focus points if you cannot see any of them?
of course let's hope that in the liveview, they are showed,
or at least in the viewfinder, some black dots are visible in the places where they are...
I guess that would not cost much.. just to make black dots, in the viewfinder, that are visible all the time.. without superimposing any of them...
but that would solve much..