:-) The D700's interface is more logical for me
As an example, I could never get used to the directions you had turn the thumb wheels to change aperture. Even after 3 Pentax DSLR's I still turned the wheel the wrong way on occasion. It just never made sense to me, and I always had to think about it. On the D700 I've never had this problem. But if I had, I have the option of not only changing my preference for which direction I have to turn the wheel, but if I don't like having the +'ve on the right & the -'ve end on the left of the exposure scale, I can change that too. And that's only the tip of the UI adjustment iceberg In this digital age there is no excuse for all cameras not to have this level of UI flexibility. And speaking of the Fn button, the D700 has another nice feature I use a lot. It has an "Info" button. Press it once and all the cameras current settings are displayed on the rear LCD. Press it again and you can use the 4-way controller to navigate to any of said settings (ie WB, NR etc) and change it without having to dive into the menus. Admittedly, the D700 is a different class of camera (and is priced as such), but the Nikon UI designers obviously have a few photographers in their midst. DS 2009/7/17 Joseph McAllister <[email protected]>: > Yeah Savage! You should know that! Use the Pentax for a month and see if the > Nikon doesn't give you pause. > > Frustrating. Hah! Harrumph! > > > On Jul 16, 2009, at 07:03 , paul stenquist wrote: > >> I think a preference for a particular camera and user-interface judgments >> are somewhat a product of what one becomes accustomed to. When I was using >> the K10D exclusively, everything was automatic. I barely had to think. When >> I went back to it after using the K20D for a few months, I was confused and >> annoyed, even though it was quite similar. Just yesterday, after only about >> two weeks and some 900 frames with the K7D I switched back to the K20D to >> shoot a panorama. I had to pause and think about how to choose manual white >> balance. Any tool that is used every day becomes an extension of the hand >> and mind. >> Paul >> On Jul 16, 2009, at 7:46 AM, David Savage wrote: >> >>> 2009/7/16 Jens <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>> (and because I love the photographer oriented user-interface of most >>>> Pentax cameras) >>> >>> >>> I'm not being a sh!t stirrer, but people who say this have never >>> really used a Nikon. And if you don't like the default button & dial >>> assignments, you at least have the option of changing them. >>> >>> And I'm not talking about using a different make of camera for a few >>> hours, I mean really use one. My K20D frustrates the hell out of me >>> when I use it up now. >>> >>> DS -- 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.
