I also find it somewhat ironic that an article which criticises Leica for poor usability has the extremely stupid "return to top to change pages" at the bottom of each page.
Why not just replicate the selection bar, for heavens sake? It would take up no more space than the current design, On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:04:05PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > My thoughts too, Bob. The E-1 is a professionally capable axe like my > Nikon F3/T+MD-4 was, and more capable in several ways. > > And actually the Leica M8 is another "photographer's camera" ... it's > just not designed as appropriate for combat conditions, which the > TotL Olympus, Nikon and Canon cameras are. > > I'm kinda surprised that this combat photojournalist would consider > an M8 as appropriate to his field work after using a loaner. I could > tell immediately from fooling with it at the store that it fits in > the class of use that the K10D and L1 fit in, not the kind of bash > around rugged piece that the E-1/E-3, Canon 1D II, or Nikon D3 were > designed to be. > > Godfrey > > > On Jun 12, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Bob W wrote: > > >> Unfortunately I've come to the conclusion that no manufacturer really > >> makes cameras for photographers anymore, > > > > I haven't read the M8 article yet, but I do take issue with this > > point. I think the top end Olympuses are very much photographers' > > cameras. I suspect the same is true of the Nikons and Canons. I really > > like my M3 and M4-2, but I haven't used them for ages, and I think my > > Olympus E-1 is a much better camera than even my LX was, and there's > > no doubt that the LX was a photographers' camera. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

