Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A funny thing happened with technology......... In IC technology, they make things bigger in capacity size, but smaller in physical size. Then they discontinue the older technology, leaving the engineers with only enormous memory as the only choice. Then the marketing and programming guys get together, and say something like.... what can we do with all this space? The result is 15 modes with half a dozen sub-modes each.....instead of only 1 mode. Or, in TV terms, remote controls with hundreds of buttons, when the market really wants only an on off switch, channel up/down, and volume up/down! Bottom line, you need really good ergonomics / human engineering to find the one mode you always use......because it is buried someplace... IMO, This is a poor area for most Asian engineered products... not so true for US and ( to a lesser degree) European designed products...... which seem to have figured out that if an idiot can not find the on/off button at least, without a 347 page instruction manual, maybe the product is too obtuse/complex or otherwise counter intuitive......! Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> wrote: > My DSLR has 15 modes of operation, each > with half a dozen submodes. The mind boggles. Obviously not a DMR. Doug Herr