On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wouldn't blame just the manufacturers. The latest wave of camera users > seems to never be satisfied either, always wanting the latest new camera in > the hopes that it will turn some magic on and make their pictures glow. > Forlorn hopes. Most never find out what their current equipment can actually > do. I don't use 90% of what my *istD does (in terms of "features"), and hell, by the standards of most digital photographers the D is an obsolete dinosaur. I guess it's nice to know that it does all sorts of things that I'll never use, or that I'll use maybe once just out of curiosity, but my point is that I really think that most photographers never use most of those "features" either. This means that they'll never use most of the "new features" on the latest cameras either. Hell, I see a picture I want to take, point the camera, hit the shutter release and it takes a photo. What more do I need? What more do most people need? But I've read on this list how dissatisfied certain people are with what Pentax has to offer. "If they don't go full-frame I'm jumping ship." "Pentax couldn't give me what I want so I unloaded my gear and went Canon/Nikon/Oly/Whatever." Is the demand created by customers or the manufacturers? Do we need more pixels because our photos aren't good enough or because we're told that a 24 megapixel body's now available for our photographing pleasure? Do we want the latest or are we told we want the latest? Hmmmmm.... cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
