Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kc, what if someone designed a compact camera that size, shoe-horned the 12MP Sony APS-C sensor (think Nikon D300) in there, Live View, put a German designed aspherical corrected fixed lens for 35mm equivalent on the front, put two control dials on the top for adjusting aperture and shutter speed directly, and it could output DNGs??? You wouldn't even have to find a spare Red Dot since it will come with one! 2009/10/24 Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu> > I saw the Canon G11 at Photo Expo yesterday and I'd been anxious to get my > hands on one, thinking that it might fill the space between Ye Olde iPhone > and a DSLR. I was particularly drawn to the high iso performance, full > manual control and optical finder all of which I find leicalike essential. > > While the G11 looks great on paper, I can only imagine that the interface > was designed by a chimpanzee who's been huffing glue. The camera sports two > very leica-like wheels on the top, one of which sets the mode, okay, the > second of which sets the _film speed_. Hello? My camera's been on iso 400 > for 99.9% of the photos I've ever taken with it, why do I need a wheel for > this? Especially one in a very useful position. No matter though, because > there's also a Canon like wheel on the back -- ah! You can turn this to set > the shutter speed. Okay, I can live with that. That must mean this ring on > the front around the lens is -- wait, no, it's nothing. It's just > decoration. How do you set the aperture? Same wheel you set the film speed > with. You press a function button. Okay, I guess I can get used to that. > Shutter speed, function, film spe-- wait, wtf's going on here? There are > THREE functions you select between, you mean I have to scroll through the > METERING MENU to get between the > shutter speed and the aperture? > > WHY ARE YOU WASTING THOSE PERFECTLY WONDERFUL WHEELS ON THE TOP OF THE > CAMERA? Canon? Hello? > > Ask next time, I'll give you the advice for free. > > Perhaps this means there's a Panasonic GF-1 in my future, with that cute > little pancake lens, until an M9 falls off the back of a truck for me.... > > > Kc > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Cheers Geoff The new LEICA M9 Passion for perfect pictures. http://www.m.leica-camera.com http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman