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Why do they always leave out one feature?!
I look at Panasonic LX2 (= Leica D-LUX 3). It is perfect in every way
except one: the zoom range is too small. Then there is TZ3. Perfect in zoom range and most every way except one: lack of aperture/shutter priority. It is so frustrating that camera companies always leave out one feature I would really want! :-) |
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Why do they always leave out one feature?!
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:21:28 GMT, RPS wrote:
I look at Panasonic LX2 (= Leica D-LUX 3). It is perfect in every way except one: the zoom range is too small. Then there is TZ3. Perfect in zoom range and most every way except one: lack of aperture/shutter priority. It is so frustrating that camera companies always leave out one feature I would really want! :-) How true? I have just got a Nikon P5000, lots of good features, but I wish they had one feature that my old Sony W100 had, and that is the capability to look at the LCD screen in the playback mode without the lens extending. |
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Why do they always leave out one feature?!
irwell wrote:
[] How true? I have just got a Nikon P5000, lots of good features, but I wish they had one feature that my old Sony W100 had, and that is the capability to look at the LCD screen in the playback mode without the lens extending. My Ricoh seems to have this feature, but without it being obvious. From power-down, press the Play button for several seconds. May work on the Nikon, it may not. David |
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Why do they always leave out one feature?!
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:48:09 -0700, irwell wrote:
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:21:28 GMT, RPS wrote: I look at Panasonic LX2 (= Leica D-LUX 3). It is perfect in every way except one: the zoom range is too small. Then there is TZ3. Perfect in zoom range and most every way except one: lack of aperture/shutter priority. It is so frustrating that camera companies always leave out one feature I would really want! :-) How true? I have just got a Nikon P5000, lots of good features, but I wish they had one feature that my old Sony W100 had, and that is the capability to look at the LCD screen in the playback mode without the lens extending. Yeah, that's a nice feature. My current camera (Panny FZ5) has that, and I do use it every now and then, to review a bunch of shots without going to the (very minor) hassle of taking off the lens cover and letting the lens extend. I wouldn't choose a new camera solely on the presence or absence of that feature, but I certainly don't mind having it. -dms |
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Why do they always leave out one feature?!
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:52:23 GMT, "David J Taylor"
wrote: irwell wrote: [] How true? I have just got a Nikon P5000, lots of good features, but I wish they had one feature that my old Sony W100 had, and that is the capability to look at the LCD screen in the playback mode without the lens extending. My Ricoh seems to have this feature, but without it being obvious. From power-down, press the Play button for several seconds. May work on the Nikon, it may not. David What a wonderful suggestion, thanks a million, it works! On the Sony it was instantaneous, on the Nikon you have to do as David suggested, hold it down for a few seconds. |
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Why do they always leave out one feature?!
irwell wrote:
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:52:23 GMT, "David J Taylor" irwell wrote: How true? I have just got a Nikon P5000, lots of good features, but I wish they had one feature that my old Sony W100 had, and that is the capability to look at the LCD screen in the playback mode without the lens extending. What a wonderful suggestion, thanks a million, it works! On the Sony it was instantaneous, on the Nikon you have to do as David suggested, hold it down for a few seconds. Don't know about your Nikon. On my Coolpix 880 just turn the mode dial to View Pictures and it will not extend the lens. jue |
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Why do they always leave out one feature?!
It is so frustrating that camera companies always leave out one feature I would really want! :-) I have the Canon 30D and it lacks two: A microphone for comments, which the 1D has. Multiexposure burst with focus bracket, which apparently is exceedingly rare or nonexistant. This is the biggie. Doug McDonald |
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Why do they always leave out one feature?!
RPS wrote:
I look at Panasonic LX2 (= Leica D-LUX 3). It is perfect in every way except one: the zoom range is too small. Then there is TZ3. Perfect in zoom range and most every way except one: lack of aperture/shutter priority. It is so frustrating that camera companies always leave out one feature I would really want! :-) I ended up with a camera that has almost every conceivable feature but the camera itself gets less than a top grade and some of the features don't work all that well. It's the Olympus SP-510UZ. 10x zoom range Auto/program/shutter priority/aperture priority/manual exposure Manual focus RAW support Time lapse Movie mode Panorama mode etc. I like it but... Menu structure is a little difficult and some functions are hard to get or change. I've had to reset the camera at least once in the field when it lost the ability to zoom. Manual focus is not implemented well. You get the idea. You might do well to give up on a feature or 2 to get a camera that has a good interface and gets good images. Ron |
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Why do they always leave out one feature?!
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:21:28 +0000, RPS wrote:
I look at Panasonic LX2 (= Leica D-LUX 3). It is perfect in every way except one: the zoom range is too small. Then there is TZ3. Perfect in zoom range and most every way except one: lack of aperture/shutter priority. It is so frustrating that camera companies always leave out one feature I would really want! :-) FWIW - my feature list is probably rather brief, but I've found nothing wanting on the Kodak P series. |
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Why do they always leave out one feature?!
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:39:33 GMT, "Jürgen Exner"
wrote: irwell wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:52:23 GMT, "David J Taylor" irwell wrote: How true? I have just got a Nikon P5000, lots of good features, but I wish they had one feature that my old Sony W100 had, and that is the capability to look at the LCD screen in the playback mode without the lens extending. What a wonderful suggestion, thanks a million, it works! On the Sony it was instantaneous, on the Nikon you have to do as David suggested, hold it down for a few seconds. Don't know about your Nikon. On my Coolpix 880 just turn the mode dial to View Pictures and it will not extend the lens. jue Further tinkering with the P5000, pressing and holding the view(Playback) button powers up the camera in the Playback mode, (without any lens extension), pressing the shutter puts the camera into shooting mode. What it doesn't do, that the Sony did, is go into lens retraction mode after viewing in playback for a minute, or so. |
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