What is important to you isn't necessarily important to someone else. I am really having trouble figuring out what specific problem there is with video on a still camera. Don't use it. I don't use the video function on my K-5. I also don't use the TAv mode, but I don't complain that it takes up extra space on the dial, I simply ignore it.
What, specifically, about video on your dSLR is inhibiting your taking still picture? On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 6:07 PM, P.J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's very true of complex computing devices. Even Windows when it was > based on MS-DOS (and NT when it's UI wasn't tightly coupled it's DOS), there > were things that were at best cumbersome if not impossible to do except from > the command prompt. > > But that's still a side issue. There are only certain core functions that a > camera needs to fulfill. In a still camera only one really, take and store > still photos. Everything that helps that should be available, every thing > that impedes that should be discouraged. Making movies with a still camera > is a nice feature, but it if begins to impede the ability to take stills > then it's counter productive. If a reviewer thinks that's a problem then > they've missed the point of having a dedicated still camera. > > Hell I've got two printers currently set up, a laser printer for text > documents and a wide carriage inkjet for photographs. They can both do each > others job, but the laser prints only B&W and relatively low resolution > graphics, while the inkjet print quality is equal to the laser printer but > tremendously more expensive per page. Should anyone be upset if each isn't > as good at the others job? > > > On 10/28/2013 5:10 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> >> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 04:50:31PM -0400, P.J. Alling wrote: >>> >>> On 10/28/2013 4:33 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >>>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 09:57:43AM -0400, P.J. Alling wrote: >>>> I also want the camera to report to me what is happening at the raw >>>> file level, not the processed jpeg. I want to know just how close >>>> I am to clipping my whites and blacks. >>> >>> That would be nice, does /any/ current camera actually implement it >>> that way? >> >> I believe that Leicas do. >> >> There is the ongoing problem that for any particular person, >> just about any bit of software will consist of 70% cruft of >> useless features that they never need. The problem is that >> it's a different 70% for each person. >> >> The same problem applies to government spending as well. >> >> The author of the LL article held Apple up as a paragon >> of clean simple design. I will say that in general Apple >> products work amazingly well, as long as what I want to >> do is something that the designers thought that somebody >> should want to do. Anything else? You're best off opening >> up a terminal window and writing a bash script. >> > > > -- > A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the > crazy, crazier. > > - H.L.Mencken > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
