I see many, many brands of "point & shoot" cameras in my Saturday morning class.
One of the things I found interesting was people that owned Kodak cameras loved them, but always were kind of apologetic about owning the brand. Most of them usually started a question with "this is only a Kodak, but..." The interesting thing was the Kodak really understood their customer. The only put stuff into the interface that would be needed. Overall, camera manuals are bad. But of the bunch, Kodak manuals were usually better than most. I think the other brands have learned the the feature count isn't selling cameras anymore, and selling someone a feature laden camera that they can't figure out is not a good way to sell them their "next" camera. gs George Sinos -------------------- gsi...@gmail.com www.georgesphotos.net plus.georgesinos.com On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:16 AM, William Robb <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 26/01/2012 2:01 PM, Tom C wrote: >> >> I was just thinking that it would seem an easy thing to provide the >> option to save to RAW format on any digital camera. I won't consider a >> camera that doesn't have that ability. So is that functionality being >> withheld to differentiate a higher end camera from a lower end model >> and therefore command a higher price? >> >> Obviously casual users don't need it, or want to understand it, but >> surely the RAW data (aside from any small degree of massaging) is >> there for the saving at some point in time. >> > > If the target market for the camera (casual user) doesn't need it, > understand it or want it, there is no point in putting it onto the camera. > It doesn't have as much to do with differentiating high end cameras from low > end cameras as it has to do with differentiating high end users from low end > users. > > -- > > William Robb > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
