Den 20. mars. 2009 kl. 22.54 skrev frank theriault:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]>
wrote:
I wouldn't blame just the manufacturers. The latest wave of camera
users
seems to never be satisfied either, always wanting the latest new
camera in
the hopes that it will turn some magic on and make their pictures
glow.
Forlorn hopes. Most never find out what their current equipment can
actually
do.
I don't use 90% of what my *istD does (in terms of "features"), and
hell, by the standards of most digital photographers the D is an
obsolete dinosaur. I guess it's nice to know that it does all sorts
of things that I'll never use, or that I'll use maybe once just out of
curiosity, but my point is that I really think that most photographers
never use most of those "features" either. This means that they'll
never use most of the "new features" on the latest cameras either.
Hell, I see a picture I want to take, point the camera, hit the
shutter release and it takes a photo. What more do I need? What more
do most people need?
But I've read on this list how dissatisfied certain people are with
what Pentax has to offer. "If they don't go full-frame I'm jumping
ship." "Pentax couldn't give me what I want so I unloaded my gear and
went Canon/Nikon/Oly/Whatever."
Is the demand created by customers or the manufacturers? Do we need
more pixels because our photos aren't good enough or because we're
told that a 24 megapixel body's now available for our photographing
pleasure? Do we want the latest or are we told we want the latest?
The manufactorers needs to make us believe we need new things, so that
is what all the commercials tell uncertain amateurs. Book and workshop
advertisements don´t have a chance.
DagT
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