Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug has it right. I was extremely impressed with the interface design of the DMR - it's light years ahead of the "oh, lets add another button - wait, a button AND a menu item, nooooo a button and a dial and a menu and a bunch of selections and then a couple of hidden, hard to use, set up options for things you might use every day - like mirror lock up - and then we'll have the manual translated from the Japanese by someone in, say, China who has never actually SPOKEN English and had it taught to them by someone who hadn't either. Then we'll make the buttons REAL SMALL. Leica gets MAJOR points for usability - but they got it right with the R8 and R9 too. It's one of the factors that gives me hope about the Digital M. Adam On 4/3/06, Douglas Herr <telyt@earthlink.net> wrote: > lrzeitlin@optonline.net wrote: > > >As a DSLR neophyte I was astonished by the number of decisions I had to > >make > > using my new Olympus E-500 once I ventured out of the AUTO mode. > > One of the beauties of the DMR is the user interface. I didn't need the > user manual to understand the controls on the back - and this is my first > exposure to digital cameras of any sort. I still don't have a user manual > for the R8. Your idea of buying the ergonomics textbook for Olympus' > engineers is a good one. > > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >