Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B. D. Colen jotted down the following: > What I am suggesting is that far too often, in both > industrial and graphic design, form qua form, as expressed by the designer, > wins out over function. OK, I'm going to shoot myself in the foot here: I think the F3 is a brilliant design. I love the way it feels and handles. All the controls (as I remember) fell right into place. The only things I'd want changed on it would be a true spot-metering mode added, and placement of the hotshoe on the prism. OTOH, perhaps placing the 'hotshoe' on the rewind lever was just a clever plot: people would get so sick of trying to use a camera-mounted flash that they'd abandon the whole idea and either go with PC-synched flash, or simply use available light. Still, it doesn't take long to realize that placing a flash over the rewind is going to lead to serious usability problems. Either you're going to have to remove the flash each and every time you wish to rewind the film (unless you have motorized rewind), or you're going to have to buy and mount an ad hoc kludge solution thingy to move the flash out of the way -- in which case, one wonders if not placing the damn thing on the prism had been simpler, easier, and better all around in the first place. M. - -- Martin Howard | Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | It's not who you are, it's who email: howard.390@osu.edu | you know that counts. www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------