On 9/27/2011 2:10 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Sep 27, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Panasonic has done exactly the same thing with their DSLRs and
Micro-FourThirds cameras. Attempting to protect the naive customer, I
guess.
Olympus doesn't do it at all. Fit an adapted manual lens and the
camera just makes an exposure.
On Pentax and Panasonic cameras, I enabled the ability to use "no
lens" as soon as I got the camera (that's effectively what this means)
and left it that way, never looked at it again.
I just ran across my photos from burning man a year ago where I hadn't realized that my
freshly repaired K20 had been reset to the factory default of "shoot jpeg". If
I cared so little about my photos that I wanted to shoot JPEGs, I wouldn't spend the
money on a DSLR.
But that doesn't describe 80% of DSLR users.
Quick story, a friend of mine was complaining about the quality or lack
thereof, of the pictures that her Canon Rebel (original, what ever the
hell it's designation is). I convinced her that she should be shooting
it in RAW mode, and set her up with a copy of RAWShooter Essentials, and
gave her a brief tutorial. She was happier with the results but still
complained about the fact that no matter what she did her pictures just
weren't as sharp as those she got from her old K1000 and 50mm f2.0
lens. She also wanted a single lens to use for travel and more
megapixels for cropping.
I did a little research, and discovered, that the consensus is that,
Nikon's 17-135mm is the sharpest of it's class*, (sorry Pentax, but
facts are facts), and that Canon is just cheap crap, as opposed to the
Pentax which is somewhat expensive...
Based on that she decided to get a Nikon D90. The new lens and camera
combination are so much better at producing in camera Jpegs that she's
decided not to shoot RAW, because processing the files was just too time
consuming.
Most people are just looking for quality that's good enough.
*Which doesn't include the Leica equivalent that Panasonic sells in the
4:3 system which is in a quality and /price/ class of it's own.
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Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a
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