He should just use a film camera if he's that worried about simplicity and video creep.
I can say that I've never accidentally turned on video on any camera I own. On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 8:39 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > Ruminating on the K-3 and the various reviews of the K-5 family of cameras > where the reviewer took off points for clunky ways to get into video mode, > (this was especially true of DPReview IIRC), I found myself wanting to > scream in the guy's face. "What is it about it being primarily a "Still" > camera that you don't get?" This little article from Luminous Landscape > makes covers most of my arguments, without the Pending assault charges, > though I think his plea for simplicity of control might go a bit too far in > the other direction, and having a third dial dedicated entirely to ISO... > Pushing a button and turning one of the e-dials isn't all that onerous as > long as the button is in a convenient location. > > NO Pentax content in the essay but hell half of us don't use Pentax as our > primary camera system anymore anyway. > > http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/an_appeal_for_divergence_and_simplicity.shtml > > -- > A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the > crazy, crazier. > > - H.L.Mencken > > > -- > 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. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- 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.
