On 9/29/12 4:58, David Parsons wrote:
If you want a basic film camera, why don't you just use a basic film camera.
Pentax is NEVER going to release a camera that has fewer features than
previous models. It doesn't make any kind of economic sense to spend
time and money to develop and release this kind of camera.
I mentioned this quite recently, of course, but I'm not so sure. The
time and money spent to develop a stripped down camera should be quite
minimal, and might capture a niche in the market that nobody else
addresses. Which leads to some return - perhaps not huge, but when your
not Canikon, winning the longest-list-of-features game is pretty hard
right now, so trying to find several smaller niches may be a good strategy.
I'm talking about an electronic camera with slightly modified controls
and a simplified firmware, though, not a mechanical one with a digital
sensor...
The simple
fact is that you do not need to use the features that you don't want
to use.
The features do tend to get in the way even if you don't intend to use
them, though. Like someone just complained how a day's work was mostly
ruined because his K-5 has somehow switched from raw to low-res JPEG.
Now if the JPEG support wasn't there in the first place...
- T
Modern cameras are computers with microswitches. The mirror and
shutter assemblies are just about the only thing remaining that are
mechanical. Using a threaded shutter release because old timers have
a dozen each? What sense does it make to use an old mechanical
shutter release that you need to interface with a circuit anyway?
Remote shutter release is an electrical signal now (a short to be
specific), it is arguably better since it requires no moving parts and
is as simple as touching two wires to trigger.
This isn't meant as an attack at you. But the nostalgia for bare
bones features is overwhelming.
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Bipin Gupta<[email protected]> wrote:
Well said Cotty, you just sold a great idea for FREE to Ricoh -
Pentax, a simple student's stripped down manual focus camera with no
bells and whistles. The basics can never change from our old box
cameras to today's flashy DSLRs - a light tight box, time - aperture -
ISO - focus.
But Pentax has crippled the lens mount - no aperture. What a shame.
Even the useful screw on cable release has gone.
Bipin.
camp: San Mateo, CA and not from the far away enchanting land
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