Contemporary Camera Design

It's funny they have a Hasselblad on top of the article. As much as the camera does produce some amazing results, it is also the worst designed camera I've ever used ergonomically as well as intuitively. Flimsy and fragile to boot.
 
Agreed, and what about forgetting to align the lens and body states and locking the lens to the body? Ugh! On the other hand, I still salivate, imagining that solid "thwack" when an image was made.
 
i think i get the core of the column: digital camera companies have yet to make a camera revolutionary in ergonomic design that will stand the test of time.
sexton could have said that in a column about a third as long ...
 
Sorry, but the author's polysyllabic verbosity and turgid ratiocination gave me a bad case of MEGO when reading this article. It reminds me of a certain kind of "scholarly dissertation", in which the author uses fifty words where ten would do, in order to establish his deep intellectuality. I had to skip the whole long bit about watches--wanted to get to the meat of the article.

Plus, he dissed the OM-D. Heresy! Especially as I am buying one. His knock on the faux pentaprism of the OM-D I thought was ridiculous. Gotta put the EVF SOMEWHERE, and what better place than on top of the camera? 'Sides, it makes it easier for us SLR users to acclimatize. I certainly don't think looking the the back of a camera (quite often held at arm's length) is really the best way to shoot--especially if you're trying to be inconspicuous.

And what's wrong with retro look? I thought retro was cool these days. I dunno about him, but I like the look of the OM-D (but then, I'm an OM user). Is he another member of the "MFT cameras should look like a rangefinder" crowd--rangefinder, of course, being a retro design itself. Hey, there are only so many configurations a camera can take....
 
I haven't read the article; probably won't; not a regular reader of LL. But visiting this thread was worthwhile, if for nothing else, getting to read these words:

Paul L:
... polysyllabic verbosity and turgid ratiocination ...
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Nice work. I appreciate the sesquipedalian logorrhoeaic, sagacity of your magniloquent riposte. (Sh*t! Writing that just gave my brain a hernia.)
 
well, i think the guy is on to something. he just took too long to say it. do digital cameras HAVE to stop at classic design parameters, or HAVE to have big ol' LCD picture windows? where is a clean design like the grd, but with a nice EVF and cmos-size sensor? is the technology here for a digital contax t2? or a nex7 with leica-size native lenses? hey, i'm just saying ...
 
Perhaps someone could explain the use of paragraphs to the author?

"As for me, I’m certain that the digital rangefinder for me is out there on the horizon. It will be small, unobtrusive, well-designed, modern in concept, affordable, and will offer a very high quality user experience."

Until that day comes, there's always film.
 
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