On 2/24/2010 5:15 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Feb 24, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
paul stenquist wrote:
Well, I hope you're right. As long as we get better autofocus and a
fast
frame rate at the same time.
Wow. I couldn't care less about either of those things!
As I said, the few critical features for each person is different.
Rather than companies trying to make every one of their cameras be all
things to all people, I'd rather see them optimize bodies for
different uses:
Entry level, consumer, point and shoot plus:
lots of hand holding modes
lots of jpeg processing
small size
pretty colors
decent performance
movies
(An EVIL APS may be the best compromise)
Live view and the ability to do things that any point and shoot can
such as recognizing what the face is and focusing on that.
Ability to connect to iPod / Droid etc.
Serious amateur on up:
Some jpeg ability, but targeted to using raw files rather than jpegs
histograms based on raw
blinkies based on raw
Landscape, still life, portrait:
Lots of pixels
lots of dynamic range
less emphasis on autofocus
weather sealing
Sports:
Fast sensor
good autofocus
weather sealing
Maybe two versions, APS for birding and other long tele work and full
frame for indoors.
I look at full-frame as a replacement for my medium format gear and
both my medium format cameras are manual focus, so if the Sony A850
equals the AF of the K20D I'll be more than fine :)
If I could use my Minolta MD mount lenses, I'd be very tempted, but
they won't even mount.
And there you go, the best argument for Pentax, and possibly the second
best argument for Nikon, (We didn't entirely f*ck over our user base).
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