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Why current silver DSLRs make people want to vomit
On Aug 1, 3:18 pm, "JoeT" wrote:
"RichA" wrote in message ups.com... On Aug 1, 8:15 am, Randall Ainsworth wrote: Another benefit of silver cameras, they stay cooler than black ones when exposed to the sun. Are you seriously saying you leave your camera lying around in the sun long enough for UV exposure to become a greater heating issue than actual air temperature? Geesh man get a grip on something that resembles reality. Do you ever walk around with a camera or do you keep it stashed in a big bag until just before you shoot with it? Or, does yours have it's own little umbrella to keep the sun off? A dark car dash can reach 160 deg. F in the space of half and hour while the air temp is considerably cooler. |
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Why current silver DSLRs make people want to vomit
On Aug 1, 3:26 pm, (Paul Mitchum) wrote:
RichA wrote: On Aug 1, 3:08 pm, (Paul Mitchum) wrote: RichA wrote: The Rebel and Rebel XT. Very rare Nikon D50s and Olympus E-500s. What they all share is a stigma in cameras that in humans is akin to leprosy. Silvered plastic. It looks so awful and cheezy that only the lowest forms of life (bottom barrel pocketable P&Ss) wear it like a badge of honour. However, mark my words. If Canon or Nikon released a metal bodied DSLR with a silver finish like the old FE or AE-1s SLRs, it would cause a sensation. IMO, it could possibly outsell black. http://www.dpreview.com/news/0706/07060101pentax50thdslr.asp Better, but still silvered plastic. Sad, when you consider even the lowliest Pentax SLR (K1000 $129.body when it left production) was metal shelled. Early K1000s were, but later ones had plastic tops. --http://www.xoverboard.com/cartoons/2007/070416_argument.html Uug, I didn't know that. But I can appreciate it given how low the body price went. |
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Why current silver DSLRs make people want to vomit
On Aug 1, 3:26 pm, "JoeT" wrote:
"RichA" wrote in message oups.com... The Rebel and Rebel XT. Very rare Nikon D50s and Olympus E-500s. What they all share is a stigma in cameras that in humans is akin to leprosy. Silvered plastic. It looks so awful and cheezy that only the lowest forms of life (bottom barrel pocketable P&Ss) wear it like a badge of honour. However, mark my words. If Canon or Nikon released a metal bodied DSLR with a silver finish like the old FE or AE-1s SLRs, it would cause a sensation. IMO, it could possibly outsell black. Why on earth would anyone spend more than a scant second of time concerned with such mundane issues as color choices of plastic bodied cameras? At the price point, you like silver, get it, you like black, get it. What mature individual give a rats ass what anyone superficially thinks in this regard? Plenty of people consider the looks of a camera. Which is why they said the E-300 was ugly, the peaked Sony mock-up pro camera is ugly, etc. I'm not saying it's worth considering, but when you pay a fair bit of money for a camera ($500+) you're going to at least glance at its appearance. |
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Why current silver DSLRs make people want to vomit
On Aug 1, 7:10 pm, Not Disclosed wrote:
RichA wrote: Another benefit of silver cameras, they stay cooler than black ones when exposed to the sun. So silver plastic would be better than silver metal, as plastic doesn't transmit heat as fast. No, but it distorts more in the heat. Remember the Sony CCDs popping off their cheap plastic backing about 2 years ago? Another recall because of it. |
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Why current silver DSLRs make people want to vomit
"frederick" wrote in message news:1186007353.245097@ftpsrv1... I'm with RichA on this. If you're taking photos of people, it does make a difference as they won't take you seriously if you're obviously using a silver camera that looks like a toy. You can dismiss this as fantasy if you like, but you are wrong. If you aren't taking photos of people, then it doesn't matter a rat's arse. The reality is all dSLR's look like plastic as well as look alike these days, so if that's the standard by which your professionalism is being judged it matters not whether it looks like silver plastic or black. Hell they even look like plastic in extreme close-up advertising photos! John Q Public couldn't care less what color your camera body is as long as the lenses you're using are suitably impressive. You're describing the likely reaction when shooting a group of photographers, in which case your biggest hurdle will likely be getting them to stop comparing gear long enough to look in the general direction of your camera so you can grab a shot! |
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Why current silver DSLRs make people want to vomit
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wrote: Are you seriously saying you leave your camera lying around in the sun long enough for UV exposure to become a greater heating issue than actual air temperature? Geesh man get a grip on something that resembles reality. I'm pretty sure I know what he's got a grip on... |
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Why current silver DSLRs make people want to vomit
TRoss wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:38:43 -0700, RichA wrote: The Rebel and Rebel XT. Very rare Nikon D50s and Olympus E-500s. What they all share is a stigma in cameras that in humans is akin to leprosy. Silvered plastic. It looks so awful and cheezy that only the lowest forms of life (bottom barrel pocketable P&Ss) wear it like a badge of honour. The Hasselblad H3D cameras have a similar silver finish - I think it looks classy. It also doesn't heat up so much or so unevenly rapidly in the sun. There's a good reason why those big telephotos are white. -- Chris Malcolm DoD #205 IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK [http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/] |
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Why current silver DSLRs make people want to vomit
JoeT wrote:
"RichA" wrote in message ups.com... On Aug 1, 8:15 am, Randall Ainsworth wrote: Another benefit of silver cameras, they stay cooler than black ones when exposed to the sun. Are you seriously saying you leave your camera lying around in the sun long enough for UV exposure to become a greater heating issue than actual air temperature? Congratulations on the post with the largest number of serious scientific misconceptions in one sentence in 2007! Geesh man get a grip on something that resembles reality. How on earth would someone as far removed from reality as you be able to tell? :-) -- Chris Malcolm DoD #205 IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK [http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/] |
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Why current silver DSLRs make people want to vomit
On 2 Aug, 00:45, RichA wrote:
On Aug 1, 7:10 pm, Not Disclosed wrote: RichA wrote: Another benefit of silver cameras, they stay cooler than black ones when exposed to the sun. So silver plastic would be better than silver metal, as plastic doesn't transmit heat as fast. No, but it distorts more in the heat. Remember the Sony CCDs popping off their cheap plastic backing about 2 years ago? Another recall because of it. No, but then I don't care. Doc |
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Why current silver DSLRs make people want to vomit
On Aug 2, 6:49 am, Dr Hfuhruhurr wrote:
On 2 Aug, 00:45, RichA wrote: On Aug 1, 7:10 pm, Not Disclosed wrote: RichA wrote: Another benefit of silver cameras, they stay cooler than black ones when exposed to the sun. So silver plastic would be better than silver metal, as plastic doesn't transmit heat as fast. No, but it distorts more in the heat. Remember the Sony CCDs popping off their cheap plastic backing about 2 years ago? Another recall because of it. No, but then I don't care. Doc I guess the question then is, why bother commenting at all? |
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