> The thing that I miss about film days is the simplicity, might I say > purity, of the camera's user interface.
The complexity of the interface was not caused by digital photography. The Leica M8's interface is no more complex than its film predecessor's. The complexity of modern camera interfaces was caused by people being taking in by the marketing people's claims that more=better as far as 'features' are concerned, and the designers' failure to take responsibility for their product, and simply loading it with everything they ever saw in everybody's wish list. In the end only 2 things really matter: where you point the lens, and when you press the shutter. Beyond that you need to be able to control the size of the hole, how long you keep it open, what's in focus, and how sensitive the film/sensor is. That's 5 controls. Everything else is froth. Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Larry Colen > Sent: 04 February 2009 01:01 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Film-days > > The thing that I miss about film days is the simplicity, might I say > purity, of the camera's user interface. Most of the time I'm totally > ambivalent about autofocus. Occasionally I find it handy, sometimes > I'll use it to prefocus when I can't see well enough to do a good job > manually. As to auto exposure, it's rarely an advantage for me over > match needle. Why does the metering have to limit itself to +/- 3ev? > > Speaking of which, I recently realized that I may have been misuing > the "focusing point" lights in my K100D, thinking that they meant that > that was where the camera had achieved focus, rather than where it was > trying to focus. > > I would be ecstatic if I could get a 35mm digital back that had: > shake reduction > A good display for reviewing shots with histogram > A digital output (wifi) so I could instantly review shots on a > computer. > > It would be even more wonderful if I could get separate backs for: > Black & White: every pixel is a B&W pixel (with no color filter so > higher sensitivity) > Infra Red > Low resolution/high sensitivity and/or dynamic range. > > But, Last I checked my email, none of the camera companies have asked > me to spec out their new products. -- 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.
