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Sony: re-launch same DSLR, different name for idiots
Seems Sony stays lazy and more or less re-launches the A200, 300 and 350
with a "starter" menu. As if the older ones were so difficult? http://news.sel.sony.com/en/press_ro...ase/40522.html Tomorrow more news, but if this is all, I fear for the job of the idiot who came up with this crap. I know a good name for the SLR's: Sony Simple SLR -- --- Bertram Paul |
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Sony: re-launch same DSLR, different name for idiots
Bertram Paul wrote:
Seems Sony stays lazy and more or less re-launches the A200, 300 and 350 with a "starter" menu. As if the older ones were so difficult? http://news.sel.sony.com/en/press_ro...ase/40522.html Tomorrow more news, but if this is all, I fear for the job of the idiot who came up with this crap. I know a good name for the SLR's: Sony Simple SLR How about Sony for Dummies? -- Bertrand |
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Sony: re-launch same DSLR, different name for idiots
On Sun, 17 May 2009 22:38:37 +0100, Bertram Paul wrote:
Seems Sony stays lazy and more or less re-launches the A200, 300 and 350 with a "starter" menu. As if the older ones were so difficult? http://news.sel.sony.com/en/press_ro...ase/40522.html Tomorrow more news, but if this is all, I fear for the job of the idiot who came up with this crap. I know a good name for the SLR's: Sony Simple SLR They already have (had?) the My First Sony brand. No need to come up with a new name. We'll see. The press release promises more enhancements. It would be quite idiotic to blame a company for enhancing their products, wouldn't it? -- Regards, Robert http://www.arumes.com |
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Sony: re-launch same DSLR, different name for idiots
"Bertram Paul" wrote:
Seems Sony stays lazy and more or less re-launches the A200, 300 and 350 with a "starter" menu. As if the older ones were so difficult? http://news.sel.sony.com/en/press_ro...ase/40522.html Tomorrow more news, but if this is all, I fear for the job of the idiot who came up with this crap. Crap it is. Desperate companies have no option but to go downmarket. Serious DSLR buyers don't buy Sony because, with the exception of the Alpha 900, they can get far better equipment from Canon and Nikon for not much more money. Attacking the first-time DSLR buyers' market is difficult, because Canon and Nikon already have most of it sewn up, with Olympus and Pentax competing with the crumbs from the masters' table. It seems that Sony is making exactly the same mistakes as Minolta did before them, with insufficient investment in R&D, the recycling of tired old products into something that is claimed to be new, but isn't, and a range of lenses that continues to be inadequate. Sony has further compounded Minolta's errors in that the lens range now consists of two entirely separate brands (Carl Zeiss and Sony/Minolta). Yet it still doesn't cover the whole range of demands from the prosumer market, leaving the few advanced Sony Alpha users very little to trade up to. It's hopeless. |
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Sony: re-launch same DSLR, different name for idiots
"Ofnuts" wrote in message ... Bertram Paul wrote: Seems Sony stays lazy and more or less re-launches the A200, 300 and 350 with a "starter" menu. As if the older ones were so difficult? http://news.sel.sony.com/en/press_ro...ase/40522.html Tomorrow more news, but if this is all, I fear for the job of the idiot who came up with this crap. I know a good name for the SLR's: Sony Simple SLR How about Sony for Dummies? -- Bertrand They were always that..... |
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Sony: re-launch same DSLR, different name for idiots
Bertram Paul wrote:
Seems Sony stays lazy and more or less re-launches the A200, 300 and 350 with a "starter" menu. As if the older ones were so difficult? http://news.sel.sony.com/en/press_ro...ase/40522.html Those cameras are most often bought by casual photographers with little deep knowledge of photography. What's wrong with Sony making them easier to use for people who use their cameras less often? I thought that the display: http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/200...pha_screen.jpg Would be an excellent guide for those who have trouble remembering DOF effect. And the overlay preview metering matrix: http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/200...a_metering.jpg was something I suggested for the a900 before it came out (based on a similar display on the Maxxum 7 film camera). Just tell us Bertram, is it simply Sony-hate or something else? -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. -- usenet posts from gmail.com and googlemail.com are filtered out. |
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Sony: re-launch same DSLR, different name for idiots
Robert Spanjaard wrote:
On Sun, 17 May 2009 22:38:37 +0100, Bertram Paul wrote: Seems Sony stays lazy and more or less re-launches the A200, 300 and 350 with a "starter" menu. As if the older ones were so difficult? http://news.sel.sony.com/en/press_ro...ase/40522.html Tomorrow more news, but if this is all, I fear for the job of the idiot who came up with this crap. I know a good name for the SLR's: Sony Simple SLR They already have (had?) the My First Sony brand. No need to come up with a new name. We'll see. The press release promises more enhancements. It would be quite idiotic to blame a company for enhancing their products, wouldn't it? Methinks Bertram had a little bee named Sony up his kazoo. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. -- usenet posts from gmail.com and googlemail.com are filtered out. |
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Sony: re-launch same DSLR, different name for idiots
Bruce wrote:
"Bertram Paul" wrote: Seems Sony stays lazy and more or less re-launches the A200, 300 and 350 with a "starter" menu. As if the older ones were so difficult? http://news.sel.sony.com/en/press_ro...ase/40522.html Tomorrow more news, but if this is all, I fear for the job of the idiot who came up with this crap. Crap it is. Desperate companies have no option but to go downmarket. Serious DSLR buyers don't buy Sony because, with the exception of the Alpha 900, they can get far better equipment from Canon and Nikon for not much more money. Attacking the first-time DSLR buyers' market is difficult, because Canon and Nikon already have most of it sewn up, with Olympus and Pentax competing with the crumbs from the masters' table. It seems that Sony is making exactly the same mistakes as Minolta did before them, with insufficient investment in R&D, the recycling of tired old products into something that is claimed to be new, but isn't, and a range of lenses that continues to be inadequate. Sony has further compounded Minolta's errors in that the lens range now consists of two entirely separate brands (Carl Zeiss and Sony/Minolta). Yet it still doesn't cover the whole range of demands from the prosumer market, leaving the few advanced Sony Alpha users very little to trade up to. It's hopeless. Sorry Paul, the chief Sony basher has now arrived, go to the back of the line. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. -- usenet posts from gmail.com and googlemail.com are filtered out. |
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Sony: re-launch same DSLR, different name for idiots
In rec.photo.digital.slr-systems Pete D wrote:
"Ofnuts" wrote in message ... Bertram Paul wrote: Seems Sony stays lazy and more or less re-launches the A200, 300 and 350 with a "starter" menu. As if the older ones were so difficult? http://news.sel.sony.com/en/press_ro...ase/40522.html Tomorrow more news, but if this is all, I fear for the job of the idiot who came up with this crap. I know a good name for the SLR's: Sony Simple SLR How about Sony for Dummies? -- Bertrand They were always that..... I guess that explains how rapidly they've been able to grow their share of the DSLR market. As H.L. Mencken so sagely observed, nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. -- Chris Malcolm |
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Sony: re-launch same DSLR, different name for idiots
On Sun, 17 May 2009 22:38:37 +0100, "Bertram Paul" wrote:
Seems Sony stays lazy and more or less re-launches the A200, 300 and 350 with a "starter" menu. As if the older ones were so difficult? http://news.sel.sony.com/en/press_ro...ase/40522.html Tomorrow more news, but if this is all, I fear for the job of the idiot who came up with this crap. I know a good name for the SLR's: Sony Simple SLR I always thought the alpha 100 menus were the simplest in any camera I've seen, if you need it more simple, you have the wrong camera... get a better cell phone... That being said, check out the Nikon D60, with it's simple graphic menu aids. I tend to ignore the cartoons, but some people might find them useful. Sony is just following a trend. As for making things easier for simple people, there are a hell of a lot of simple people around! |
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