Interesting thing I came across tonight while reading
Rangefinder Mag circa 2001. I was aware that Hasselblad came out with a gold edition 500-series cam for their anniversary, but they also came out with 3 special colors right around that time.
That's right...blue, red, and yellow(!) were available if you pleased.
Hasselblad's 503 colour model cameras? Rare? - Photo.net Medium Format Forum http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140333603185
The Hblad is a serious camera...in bright colors. What say you now?
Originally posted by Aristophanes The
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WTF!
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Originally posted by Aristophanes: This is exactly the quote you do NOT want to see the day of product launch, from Imaging Resource (and a more tactful but similar quote from DPR):
Since almost every other camera on the market gives some kind of indication of what areas are in focus before I commit to a shot, this just feels like I'm using a broken camera
From a gatekeeper review site that had an advance model, that's a sales-killing quote. It is a marketer's worst nightmare.
But, ooh, the pretty colours!
Clearly, you are the marketing master, telling us how a camera has failed that hasn't been yet sold.
No AF point shown...yawn.
Since we're appearing to be allowing generalities to become fact...I never use anything but the center point. With my *ist focus screen, I'm not sure it even shows up. It's not important.
See how ridiculous making one
opinion into fact becomes?
Originally posted by Marc Sabatella to get a camera as well-speced as the K-x out cheaply enough, something has to go. Everyone cuts something. I get that your religion is such that losing AF indicators is the worst possible thing to leave out, but in my book, it's not even in the top 100 compared to other features you could point at (eg, cameras that lack SR, cameras that lack DOF preview, cameras that lack spot metering, cameras that lack orientation sensors, cameras that lack support for older lenses, etc, etc).
Yeah, that's why all Canon cameras have always featured spot meters, AF assist lamps, in body SR, and have always had the biggest viewfinders in their class ... *not*.
Exactly Marc. Even the loss of the dedicated SR button (I mean...from the 1st and 2nd gens of SR-equipped cams) isn't a deal breaker for me. SR is still in there...still usable...still awesome
Originally posted by kittykat46 Haha....I remember one very popular Canon dSLR model (now superceded) did not have spot metering capability; yet it sold extremely well.
Shows you either the power of marketing (anything with a Canon badge is GOOOOD) or the level of knowledge of the buyers (Ummm...what is Spot Metering ?)
Brand recognition is HUGE. That's part of our world and how things go.
I look at researching my purchases as being a "connoisseur" in that I learned how to weed through all the marketing and general bullcrap that's out there. Why is Crown Royal always behind the counter and expensive? Cause it's gooooood. (We're not going into Gentlemen Jack or anything like Single Barrel, either!
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This K-x should create some stir...get the name out...bring some business in. Look how Kanye West went from hiding in the studio to the talk of the net in one day!