On 2/7/10, Tanya Love <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am really a “no frills” kinda girl, and in reality, THIS would be my dream > camera: > > Same body, controls, size, screen and general layout and aesthetics as the > K-7. > BUT, the only exposure modes being M, B, video, and maybe Tav. > RAW only for image quality/file format, who the heck can do anything with a > one * jpeg anyways?!? > Same specs in max shutter speed, motor drive, buffer etc. > Live View and video. > Shake reduction. > And obviously as a result of it ONLY being RAW, there would be no white > balance controls. > > And THAT’s it!! > > For me, all the other stuff is basically redundant. > > See, I don’t EVER use exposure bracketing, EV compensation, any white balance > adjustments, or for that matter do I EVER use any of the multiple AF points. > ...
There's a fairly long post of mine among many others on that topic here: http://www.4-3system.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=146&forum=9 Parts of that: " Great designs don't come from trying to have more features than the " competition, but from making good choices. Other users, especially " pros, have a list of features they need. OK, some models need those. " But for me, most of those "features" just add weight and cost. I just " want a really good basic camera. My K-X is close enough. " I don't need JPEG or in-camera white balance adjustment or other " features that rely on in-camera processing. Don't waste chip real " estate on processing, beyond a bare minimum for A/D conversion " and some scaling. Use it for bigger less noisy pixels, bigger buffers, ... " I do not need autofocus, or built in flash, or a menu of modes. " Ideally, the menus should be needed only for setting up the " camera. During shooting, everything I need to do should be " at my fingertips. ... " I just want two modes: metered manual and one auto mode. " I set aperature, preferred ASA, and minimum shutter speed. " Camera sets shutter speed to get correct exposure if it can " within allowed range. If not, it adjusts ASA and warns me " in the viewfinder so I can consider changing the aperature. I would add now that the ideal camera would be EVIL, (electronic viewfinder, interchangeable lens) in a tiny form factor, micro-4/3 or micro-APS-C, and with some adapters that support auto-aperature on older lenses, The main reason I went K-x rather than Panasonic G1 was that the Panny would have forced me to use stop down metering on the cheap but good older lenses. What do others think might be ideal? -- 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.
