On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:47 PM, David Savage<[email protected]> wrote: > :-) > > 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 >
I'll just note the Info button idea was stolen wholesale from Sony, who still managed to do it better (The Info display on the A700/A900 autorotates when you rotate the camera) -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
