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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
11-13-2013, 12:18 PM
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An Appeal for Divergence and Simplicity
Says some things I'm glad are being said.
*unfortunately* I don't think the Internet Pundits and Reviewers (as well as paper magazine ones) know how to spin prose over actual meaningful utility and performance, so rather spends time repeating all the features and gizmos and how they work, or whether they are omitted. Hence, there are a few people online I'd trust to grok the Df, and to evaluate its utility and performance for what it is.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
11-07-2013, 12:52 PM
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I read (and anything later than 70's, re-read in some cases) old photography magazines.
There was a time any exposure automation was viewed with suspicion, as somehow taking decisions away from the photographer
There was a time auto focus was also viewed with suspicion... and buttons instead of dials, and menus instead of buttons...
And capture medium speed...
So a camera with in many respects Nikon's top sensor (we're all too sophisticated to go for the MP race, aren't we?), which is perhaps the one of theirs that is best suited to getting the most out of legacy lenses, and one that allows a different, tactile, and yeah steam punk, approach to controlling these things is not a poor thing, just different... and yet, in this day and age, they do have to make the other things available one way or another.
That National Graflex by the way is the most complicated, easily screwed-up camera mechanism I've ever encountered.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
11-06-2013, 02:55 PM
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;) :p as a person who uses no stinkin meter and no stinkin focus aid and no stinkin thermometer either, I'd argue that both of you are putting in several unnecessary steps toward that "pure photography" experience.
Thing is, what would a truly simple camera interface be like, one that allows one as much or as little input as one desires?
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