If you read along with the English subtitles, he says they interviewed a
lot of young people to find out what THEY wanted in a film camera.
Face it Larry, you're "over the hill".
On 3/3/2024 3:21 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Mar 3, 2024, at 9:29 AM, Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/3/2024 9:04 AM, Comcast wrote:
As a medium, film suffers in comparison to digital in that it is less capable
of low light reproduction and when pushed, image quality drops precipitously.
The solution has always been larger formats. My best film work was generally on
6x7 or 6x6 film. Half a f a 35 mm frame has no appeal whatsoever. Am I missing
something here?
Paul
Yeah, you are not in the target market for a half frame P&S camera just like
the target market for this camera is interested in a view camera.
I remember when I was a kid all of the anti-drug propaganda that was made by adults who
were desperately trying to send out messages that were "cool", and failing
miserably.
I also look at every fashion trend that I think is incredibly lame, but which is the hot buzz, from
wearing trousers hanging so low that half your underwear is visible to "stanced" cars,
that I think is incredibly lame, but nonetheless is "cool".
I can't tell whether this is a case of Ricoh cluelessly trying to be cool, my being clueless
at what actually is cool, or both. There is a lot to be said in favor of the not just being
a 'me too' company and trying new things. I personally would prefer a K-1 III, and I'd also
prefer a UI that put less effort into being a large heavy expensive point and shoot, and
more into making it easier to get the best possible raw file. Unfortunately, once again, I
am not what large companies perceive as their target market, otherwise I would have been
able to find a sporty rear wheel drive hatchback (estate or shooting brake) car that gets
>35MPG on the freeway, has a manual transmission and doesn't have all sorts of
"features" where the car does things that the driver doesn't explicitly tell it to
do.
Over on the Forum of Pentax this camera is getting quite a bit of buzz from
people who still treat photography as a fun experiment.
You mean that there are people who think that photography is actually fun?
I was quite surprised that it is a vertical half frame, but the logic behind
that decision is that a vertical format is what the target market is already
comfortable with.
I'm inclined to suggest that one of the biggest advantages of film is that
every frame does cost money, it is what forces you to slow down and think about
each shot.
If Ricoh were really thinking outside the box, they would take a film SLR and
replace the focusing screen with a sensor. The viewfinder would be electronic,
and it would be able to take digital images either as proofs or cheap snaps,
but when you wanted, you could flip a switch and expose a frame of film.
bill
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