On Aug 22, 2007, at 10:41 AM, Cory Papenfuss wrote: > Yes, I have a tendency to pick nits.... particularly on pet > peeves. Battery misinformation is one such pet peeve. It was not a > personal attack, simply pointing out that such a piece of > information is > useless for the point trying to be conveyed.
You evidently have difficulty understanding the point I was trying to convey. As I said, "What's important is that the differential between shooting with the Live View enabled vs the optical finder alone is not that enormous." My apologies if stating that the battery was rated for a capacity of 1500 mAh without specifying that it is also rated at 7.2V is some enormous breach of information disclosure ethics. > OTOH, it's basically a free addition since it doesn't require > anything other than software, so I'm surprised it's taken this long > to be > included. The implementation requires a live capture mode sensor chip, which until recently could not be supported in a large sensor without high power consumption and resultant overheating, destroying image quality and shortening the lifespan of the sensor to an unusable level. And then there is all the mechanical coordination required for a DSLR to manage the iris/mirror/shutter/exposure sequencing, on top of the programming of capture and rendering dynamics for that live view mode. Yea, a "free addition" ... Pointing out that "doesn't require anything other than software" is nonsensical isn't even a nit pick: it's just plain wrong. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
