08-07-2014, 09:04 PM
Size of hands and placing of the controls are two aspects of ergonomics - but if the user interface of the software is poorly designed, all this knobs won't help much. Nikon clearly has some space to improve... I once took the effort and put the menus of the D800 together in a spread sheet to get an overview about the different banks.
Normal configuration has 116 rows, extended configuration about 300 (if I count one row for each possible setting)
116 × 4 = 464 possible config settings, 300 × 4 = 1200 possible extended config settings. Not counting the all-day ones like white balance, AF mode... To me it seems each demand of enough professionals will be fullfilled somehow, no matter how small brains people like me have available sides their normal job. Alright professional cams might be used by fulltime photographers, but even them need some brain capacity for apps, business structures and social behavior...
The user settings of the "prosumer" models do have less parameters, but really, who can possibly know such fat setup stuff? The D810 has maybe 15-20% more stuff to set up. It's a great camera and I like it - but I doubt very much, those quantities of switches and adjustments couldn't be handled in an easier way. It's a miracle how I ever got a single picture out of my old Contax...
Normal configuration has 116 rows, extended configuration about 300 (if I count one row for each possible setting)
116 × 4 = 464 possible config settings, 300 × 4 = 1200 possible extended config settings. Not counting the all-day ones like white balance, AF mode... To me it seems each demand of enough professionals will be fullfilled somehow, no matter how small brains people like me have available sides their normal job. Alright professional cams might be used by fulltime photographers, but even them need some brain capacity for apps, business structures and social behavior...
The user settings of the "prosumer" models do have less parameters, but really, who can possibly know such fat setup stuff? The D810 has maybe 15-20% more stuff to set up. It's a great camera and I like it - but I doubt very much, those quantities of switches and adjustments couldn't be handled in an easier way. It's a miracle how I ever got a single picture out of my old Contax...