I can say that I have had that experience, several times, with the E-PL2. Rather than going through the process of reprogramming the button - i.e., setting it so that accidental button-pushes would be less troublesome - I sold the camera. Why would anybody think of putting a big honking button right where the users thumb is going to fall when holding the camera for shooting?
stan On Oct 27, 2013, at 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. > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
