That's very true of complex computing devices. Even Windows when it was
based on MS-DOS (and NT when it's UI wasn't tightly coupled it's DOS),
there were things that were at best cumbersome if not impossible to do
except from the command prompt.
But that's still a side issue. There are only certain core functions
that a camera needs to fulfill. In a still camera only one really, take
and store still photos. Everything that helps that should be available,
every thing that impedes that should be discouraged. Making movies with
a still camera is a nice feature, but it if begins to impede the ability
to take stills then it's counter productive. If a reviewer thinks
that's a problem then they've missed the point of having a dedicated
still camera.
Hell I've got two printers currently set up, a laser printer for text
documents and a wide carriage inkjet for photographs. They can both do
each others job, but the laser prints only B&W and relatively low
resolution graphics, while the inkjet print quality is equal to the
laser printer but tremendously more expensive per page. Should anyone
be upset if each isn't as good at the others job?
On 10/28/2013 5:10 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 04:50:31PM -0400, P.J. Alling wrote:
On 10/28/2013 4:33 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 09:57:43AM -0400, P.J. Alling wrote:
I also want the camera to report to me what is happening at the raw
file level, not the processed jpeg. I want to know just how close
I am to clipping my whites and blacks.
That would be nice, does /any/ current camera actually implement it
that way?
I believe that Leicas do.
There is the ongoing problem that for any particular person,
just about any bit of software will consist of 70% cruft of
useless features that they never need. The problem is that
it's a different 70% for each person.
The same problem applies to government spending as well.
The author of the LL article held Apple up as a paragon
of clean simple design. I will say that in general Apple
products work amazingly well, as long as what I want to
do is something that the designers thought that somebody
should want to do. Anything else? You're best off opening
up a terminal window and writing a bash script.
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crazier.
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