07-24-2010, 06:50 AM
[quote name='Scott' date='23 July 2010 - 10:07 PM' timestamp='1279948072' post='1267']
Hi,
I don't know if others experience this, but as a computer scientist I find there are some camera design decisions that really bug me--not because they necessarily make the camera unusable, but just because they're apparently STOOPID. :-)
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Hi,
Add battery and cable doors easily broken, detached, lost? (Replacements hard to find.) Nikon compacts.
And memory cards tiny and/or black, not colorful-- swallowed by pile carpeting? xD, e.g.
And menus with redundancies and mysterious hiding places for key switches? Olympus slr's.
And icons, abbreviations, and process terms from obvious to universal to unique? Compare Canon to Sony.
And strap lugs and ends no Western hands can manipulate? That IS universal.
I suspect that the Japanese standards for manufacturing/designing 35 mm cameras disappeared, like the yellow stickers on bodies and lenses. Success breeds arrogance, and customers cry "Stoopid".
Bob
Hi,
I don't know if others experience this, but as a computer scientist I find there are some camera design decisions that really bug me--not because they necessarily make the camera unusable, but just because they're apparently STOOPID. :-)
...................................
Hi,
Add battery and cable doors easily broken, detached, lost? (Replacements hard to find.) Nikon compacts.
And memory cards tiny and/or black, not colorful-- swallowed by pile carpeting? xD, e.g.
And menus with redundancies and mysterious hiding places for key switches? Olympus slr's.
And icons, abbreviations, and process terms from obvious to universal to unique? Compare Canon to Sony.
And strap lugs and ends no Western hands can manipulate? That IS universal.
I suspect that the Japanese standards for manufacturing/designing 35 mm cameras disappeared, like the yellow stickers on bodies and lenses. Success breeds arrogance, and customers cry "Stoopid".
Bob