Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I took a look at the Minolta 7D on Friday afternoon, IMO it has a bewildering number of buttons, wheels, toggles and switches all of which could possibly be inadvertently set by pulling the camera out of a bag. I still much prefer the top deck LCD of the Canon 20D with the most important and most often changed parameters all displayed together, with just 2 wheels and 2 buttons to do the adjustments. That said, I was very impressed with the IS function and the camera does actually have a pretty ergonomic layout, has anyone had the chance to compare lens IS and body IS or know of an article where this has been compared. Douglas Feli wrote: > I just took another look at the layout of the Minolta. The two large > dial control program > mode and exposure compensation. Shutter speed / aperture is controlled > via two small > dial in in front / behind the shutter release. But a lot of other > functions that normally > would be buried in the main menu can directly be accessed by buttons. > > http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/konicaminolta7d/ > > f > > > On Jan 30, 2005, at 3:24 AM, Frank Dernie wrote: > >> This is a big deal IMHO. If I wasn't committed by considerable expense >> to Canon I would buy one. The Canon interface is poor but of course it >> is more difficult to style a camera with knobs and, of course very >> much more expensive to make, The top Minolta P&S has them and the >> other model, otherwise about the same spec but with the normal button >> and menu type interface is not much more than half the price. >> Frank >> >> On 30 Jan, 2005, at 07:51, Feli wrote: >> >>> Minolta. It actually appears to have dials like a 'real' camera to >>> change such settings. >> >> > > ________________________________________________________ > feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 > www.elanphotos.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >