On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 07:15:27PM -0400, P.J. Alling wrote: > You obviously know little about the history of UNIX. Feature creep > infected it early, but it doesn't change the original concept, and > some versions remained true to that concept for a long time, not BSD > unfortunately. It also doesn't change my point, though maybe it > proves it. If I wanted to make movies I'd get camera designed for > it. > > It's really nice that my, fill in the blank, DSLR, MILC, P&S, > whatever, can make pretty decent movies, but that's not why I bought > it. Don't obscure the still photo abilities of a in this case this > case DSLR to do something it's not designed to do. As I think I > mentioned, a lot of reviewers were upset that the K-5 was kind of > clunky at getting into video mode, and Ricoh, listened. But is that > really a good thing for still photographers?
What is at issue here is not whether something is good for still photographers, and particularly whether it is good for still photographers that shoot in raw formats, and prefer to have control over what is happening. The only thing that really matters when these decisions are being made, is whether it is a good thing for Ricoh's bottom line. The vast majority of people buying cameras want something that is as easy to use as their camera phone, and as long as it delivers pictures that are better than their phone they are happy. Over the past week, I was gobsmacked by the number of people holding DSLRs out at arms length, taking pictures as if they were a P&S or camera phone. These are the people that buy enough cameras to support the business so that a new K-3 is under $2,000 rather than over $8,000. By the way, even if you don't have any interest in shooting video, put a decent lens on your K-5, or even K-x, and play with the video feature for a few minutes. We have been conditioned over the years that the only time we see shallow depth of field on video, is in big professional productions. When I see my crappy, playing around, video with the FA77 something in the back of my brain is tricked into thinking that it was taken with a pro movie camera. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
