On Wed, Mar 20, 2013, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
>
> You can always find situations where some device doesn't do exactly
> what you would prefer.
>
> My philosophy is to find the situations where the device does exactly
> what I need, and work around or avoid the situations where it's not
> exactly the right thing. I buy a couple of different devices to cover
> the situations where one is deficient.
>
> By adopting this philosophy, I find myself complaining about stuff a
> lot less: looking for how cameras are really very good, and for what
> they do, rather than worrying about how they're crappy or not to my
> taste.
>
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Aahz Maruch <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
>>>
>>> Shade the LCD with your hat. Works fine.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Aahz Maruch <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:20 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hipster production. All I remember is thinking "Still no viewfinder. How
>>>>>> &#^%@* am I supposed to control something if I can't see to focus it?"
>>>>>
>>>>> I suspect the assumption is that most people will allow the camera to
>>>>> set focus automatically and use the LCD primarily for framing.
>>>>
>>>> That may be the assumption, but IME the LCD is useless for that purpose
>>>> (framing) in bright light. I had to use the mostly worthless OVF on my
>>>> Nikon P7100 a few days ago precisely for that, and for that reason will
>>>> never get a camera without some kind of viewfinder.
>>
>> Doesn't work so well trying to shoot sort-of upward (about sixty degrees
>> from horizontal in this particular case).
That's a fair point and a reasonable attitude, but I tend to be a
single-device person (for example, my partner has an Android phone, an
iPod Touch, a regular iPod, and an iPad -- I just use my Android phone
for everything). I prefer to stick with what I know I'll use rather than
getting greedy and getting something I won't use ("the better is the
enemy of the good").
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