I really don't think you should be looking to the Unix world for simplicity and design cues.
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:57 AM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > It's not the simplicity itself that's at issue. It's the original UNIX > creed, programs that do one thing well. > > I want a still camera that does still photography well, that's ergonomically > suited to it. Something that takes good quality photographs printable up to > a certain size. I don't care if the camera makes movies, really good movies > require seeing in ways that I just don't see. Really good movies, unless > they're good due to compelling subject matter, require planning that even > Ansel Adams didn't need to do. As a still photographer, using what used to > be called a minicam, > > I want a Camera that doesn't get in my way, but has all the necessary > controls readily available to take still pictures. That should be control > over the three parts parts of exposure, ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speed. > Control over the meter with selectable spot averaging and the program. The > ability to turn the anti shake system on or off quickly, as conditions > warrant. In auto focus modes the ability to choose focus points quickly. > > I shoot raw so it's not quite so important that I change color balance > quickly though it does help get good exposures. So that shouldn't be buried > to deeply in a menu either. > > For tripod work getting into a true mirror lockup would be nice too. > > On the K20D Pentax got almost all of those things right. All the shooting > controls are right there. Shutter and Aperture are controlled by two > wheels, ISO press the OK button and turn the front wheel. Metering pattern > is right there under the mode dial. SR a switch on the back of the camera. > White balance on the quick menu. Change a focus point, in shooting mode > right there on the four way controller. > > The only thing you need to take your cameras from your eye for is white > balance. > > Tho only real deficiency is mirror lockup for tripod work. > > We can discuss the cameras deficiencies as a photographic tool at length, it > has many and can be extremely frustrating, but it's control layout for the > still photographer is better than almost any other camera I've had a chance > to play with, (I say almost because I only got to handle a Nikon D3 for a > very short period of time so that might be better), though I still liked the > quick white balance setup on the *ist-D. > > > > > > On 10/27/2013 9:25 PM, David Parsons wrote: > >> 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. >> >> >> > > > -- > 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.
