Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Aug 10, 2005, at 11:51 AM, Toralf Lund wrote:
As long as they "downgrade" the right things, I'm all for it.
I notice that Canon has removed the pop-up flash on the body
discussed here. If they got rid of the "21 custom functions with 59
values" (or whatever), too, I might start getting interested...
Sometimes the popup flash is useful for a tiny bit of fill.
Yes, but I could easily live without it, especially if it reduced the
price of the camera, or I could trade it in for something else, like a
full frame sensor (well that would not be a direct swap, I guess) or
mechanical aperture coupling. (In the case of Pentaxes, obviously.)
The custom functions on the Canon are extensive, much more so than on
the *ist D/DS/DL, but most of what they offer is quite useful for
various people.
Well, I haven't actually tried configuring a Canon camera, so I have
idea what they do, but 21 functions do seem like a lot... The problem
with having so many of course arises if you don't use most of them;
having so many extra options tends to make it a lot harder to track down
you do want to change.
They shouldn't be confused with exposure program presets, however,
which are mostly just a waste of space on the mode selector dial for
me. On either camera. ;-)
You mean the "picture modes". Yep, I wouldn't miss those one bit if they
were removed. Does anyone here actually ever use them? Or will any users
of a 3500 euro-camera like that new Canon?
Godfrey
