But, seriously (and I haven't used any P&S except for tourists asking me to take piccies with their cameras, standing in front of the CN Tower) these cameras have limitations. They have to.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I'm not saying they're garbage. But they aren't great big SLR's that can do things in an instant, or that have manual over-ride or any of that stuff.
I guess there's a reason that PJ's and Papparazzi don't use P&S's.
OTOH, it's hard to fit an MZ-S in your breast pocket - or any other pocket for that matter. If I had the money, I might even buy one (after I buy a nice medium format kit, and a *istD). True, as a few posts have mentioned, the limitations can be minimized, but not eliminated. That's the trade-off for small size and convenience, as you quite correctly point out, Boris.
regards, frank
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
From: Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Optio S4 - first impressions Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 21:41:24 +0200
Hi!
Shel, I think of it somewhat differently. It is like this, you decide that *now* is the moment, but since this camera is a sign of the future, it would actually photograph the future moment *after* you decided that you want shutter to trip and even pressed a button ...
I am a positive man, normally, so I tend to think of a full half of a glass of water ...
<VBG>
Boris
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