When things start becoming multifunction their use as a specialised thing suffers. Consider the Swiss Army knife, for example, or bicycle multitools - pretty good at a range of things, but not the best at any of them, and lacking the usability of the specialist thing. My bike multi tool has a couple of tire levers built in. Good if I have a flat while I'm out and about, but I never use it at home, I use a couple of Park TL5s, which are much better.
Additionally, anything on a multifunction tool that you don't use is a waste, and you have a right to be annoyed at having to pay for it, and put up with the inevitable small inconveniences. Unfortunately the camera market, most of it, has a different view and likes long feature lists, so the manufacturers pander to them. B > On 28 Oct 2013, at 22:18, David Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> >> 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 >> [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.
