N.delaRua
Well-known
I love photography and cameras, but a trip to the local photo shop really depressed me today. I want a digital camera so bad, but one without all the crap in the way.
I came home to find a $10 Pentax K1000 with a 50mm SMC F/2.0 at the thrift store that my dad found... Marvelous camera. Soooo simple. Shutter, aperture, and focus and a + - needle meter. A total transparent experience.. Just like my M6... I could teach a monkey photography with this camera, and he would learn to focus on composition.
At the photo store I got to play with the latest Oly Pens, Fuji X100, and the Nikon 1 system. Sooooo many gimmicks and doo dads and bells and whistles and LCDs and EVFs.
Just playing the with X100, I accidentally put it into about 50 different modes. Took me a minute to even get it to take still shots again. The rep told me the biggest selling point of the Nikon 1 is a playback mode that adds music and motion to the photograph like iPhoto. Wow. She does that and people buy them.
When oh when oh when will a camera company go back to their roots and make a camera with shutter, aperture, and ISO settings? I'll wind the shutter myself, and I don't need to chimp... The only one seems to be the M9 or M8 but for $2000 or $7000; Ill need to part with an organ.
I know I am niche market and no one exists like me, but I think simple things are best. I have a gut feeling that the market for a simple, easy to use, straightforward camera would be revolutionary in the age of the 300 page user manual... People were clamoring for the X100 like crazy! its so close, but just needs to be even simpler.
Please photography Santa, if your out there, how about a simple digital camera stripped of any extras? Not everyone in the world is a photojournalist and needs 10,000 fps, and 102,000 ISO, and face recog, livemos, etc.
Dream Digital:
A shutter dial, an aperture ring, and an ISO button maybe a WB button and something that fits in the hand nicely with a big bright viewfinder (I don't care what type as long as it has glass in it).
I came home to find a $10 Pentax K1000 with a 50mm SMC F/2.0 at the thrift store that my dad found... Marvelous camera. Soooo simple. Shutter, aperture, and focus and a + - needle meter. A total transparent experience.. Just like my M6... I could teach a monkey photography with this camera, and he would learn to focus on composition.
At the photo store I got to play with the latest Oly Pens, Fuji X100, and the Nikon 1 system. Sooooo many gimmicks and doo dads and bells and whistles and LCDs and EVFs.
Just playing the with X100, I accidentally put it into about 50 different modes. Took me a minute to even get it to take still shots again. The rep told me the biggest selling point of the Nikon 1 is a playback mode that adds music and motion to the photograph like iPhoto. Wow. She does that and people buy them.
When oh when oh when will a camera company go back to their roots and make a camera with shutter, aperture, and ISO settings? I'll wind the shutter myself, and I don't need to chimp... The only one seems to be the M9 or M8 but for $2000 or $7000; Ill need to part with an organ.
I know I am niche market and no one exists like me, but I think simple things are best. I have a gut feeling that the market for a simple, easy to use, straightforward camera would be revolutionary in the age of the 300 page user manual... People were clamoring for the X100 like crazy! its so close, but just needs to be even simpler.
Please photography Santa, if your out there, how about a simple digital camera stripped of any extras? Not everyone in the world is a photojournalist and needs 10,000 fps, and 102,000 ISO, and face recog, livemos, etc.
Dream Digital:
A shutter dial, an aperture ring, and an ISO button maybe a WB button and something that fits in the hand nicely with a big bright viewfinder (I don't care what type as long as it has glass in it).
Roger Hicks
Veteran
It is indeed hard to believe that there is not a market for a bog-basic digital manual camera. Well, there is, but at M9 prices, it is extremely limited in size.
Cheers,
R.
Cheers,
R.
Trius
Waiting on Maitani
Agreed with you both. Cameras have been a consumer commodity, with the manufacturers not really caring about the serious photographer (whether "professional" or advanced amateur,) whose eye and skill doesn't need help.
Our computers are in our craniums, please free us from your techno-crap.
Our computers are in our craniums, please free us from your techno-crap.