Yes. It's a no-win scenario these days. The brand enthusiasts complain, the 
videomongers complain, the still shooter traditionalists complain, and the 
anti-brand trolls complain too. 

I'm so happy that most of my cameras are ancient junk that no one is 
complaining about. 
I just bought another Polaroid ...  ;-)

G

On Oct 5, 2013, at 10:24 AM, David Parsons <[email protected]> wrote:

> And if they did disable features based on camera model, people would
> complain that the features are locked behind firmware.
> 
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:59 PM, George Sinos <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The number of advanced camera bodies sold probably doesn't financially
>> justify producing one version with and one without video.  The two
>> would be made up of substantially the same parts.  The software would
>> be the major difference.
>> 
>> You could say the same thing about many of the features in advanced
>> camera bodies.  Most of the features are only used by a small fraction
>> of the users.  But to any individual user, that particular feature may
>> be indispensable.
>> 
>> Pile up all of those features, slap on a poor interface, write a 350
>> page user manual that most people can't understand and call it a day.
>> It makes a good after market for guys that teach or write alternative
>> instruction manuals.


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