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When is a camera not a camera?
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Anything that discourages feature bloat is a good thing. I have often wondered why anyone would want a camera with a MP3 player in it, that’s feature bloat gone mad. Then they hide important functions like Canons mirror lock up, which is buried 4 layers down in custom functions. Mirror lock up is a basic necessity, it should be an easy to find dedicated switch or button that I can get to fast.
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There are three colours, Ten digits and seven notes, its what we do with them that’s important.
Ruth Ross
Like the Epson RD-1 and it’s Leica lens mount, nice but not for me :-)
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There are three colours, Ten digits and seven notes, its what we do with them that’s important.
Ruth Ross
Sigma's new DSLR was pretty much everything a camera should be really - no scene modes, no in camera effects - just a camera. period. one that made you think what you were doing to use it.
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A smart bomb is only as clever as the idiot that tells it what to do
Sigma have actually just updated the firmware again on the SD14 adding ISO50 and generally improved stability. They have had a lot of firmware updates for the camera in its relatively short lifespan but I guess that’s a side effect of dabbling in new fields of technology like the foveon sensor.
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A smart bomb is only as clever as the idiot that tells it what to do
‘The CIPA (Camera & Imaging Products Association) has today released a statement on the recent re-classification of certain digital cameras as 'video camera recorders'. The new EU rule states that any digital still camera with a resolution higher than 800x600 and the duration of video of 30 minutes of more (at 23 fps or higher) must now be classified as a 'video camera recorder' and hence be taxed at a higher rate. This new legislation will undoubtedly mean that any promise of serious video capture on digital still cameras becomes an even more remote possibility. ‘
Hopefully this will encourage the big manufacturers to stop messing around on superfluous features and focus on image capture quality and other photography related enhancements instead.
The new laws are not retrospective though so new cameras like the Nikon D300 and D3 that break these rules will be unaffected. Just.