Dpreview REALLY scraping the barrel bottom now!
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From: LOL! on 6 Jul 2010 18:51 On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 18:03:57 -0400, "Sysop" <none(a)null.invalid> wrote: >They put live view, and video on dSLR cameras so P&S >who are arfraid to look through the optical viewfinder would use them. > You've never used many or any cameras much, have you. Live view is invaluable for judging exposure, color balance, shutter-speed preview, 100% framing (as opposed to the kludgy and inaccurate framing in nearly all optical viewfinders), being able to ramp-up the gain in dim lighting conditions for framing and focusing where an optical viewfinder has long since become useless, DOF preview without dimming the image, providing for manual-focus assist methods where central areas are zoomed in to almost pixel level to judge focusing accuracy, real-time histograms, zebra over/under exposure area alerts (under/over areas highlighted in contrasting colors so you know if you can sacrifice those portions of your image for the more important subject), etc. etc. But that's okay. You go on pretending to know something about cameras. It's highly entertaining every time you idiots post these displays, making total fools of yourselves. LOL!
From: SMS on 6 Jul 2010 19:27 On 06/07/10 3:03 PM, Sysop wrote: > "LOL!"<lol(a)lol.org> wrote in message > news:cv7736t69u1flfusq9ns97qld89dt2utp1(a)4ax.com... >>> >> "Compact Camera Group Test: >> SLR-like 'super zoom' cameras" >> >> I don't see "P&S" used anywhere in that heading, do you? >> > Pretty well almost every camera made is auto focus, and has live view, so > everything is a P&S. They put live view, and video on dSLR cameras so P&S > who are arfraid to look through the optical viewfinder would use them. Probably not. So many people complain about the lack of an optical viewfinder on P&S cameras that it's unlikely that a lot of people are afraid of them. Other than those people that have began using a camera in the past five to eight years, no one is afraid of OVFs. I've been at stores and seen people (besides me) looking for P&S cameras with OVFs, and have handed my P&S cameras to people that were amazed that there were still P&S cameras with a viewfinder and wanted to write down the model number. OVFs are sorely missed by most users, but the manufacturers don't want to spend the money on them. EVFs are better than nothing, but can't compare to an OVF in terms of usability in bright light. Adding live view to a D-SLR is a good idea but when you turn on live view you switch to CDAF which is much slower than PDAF.
From: John Navas on 6 Jul 2010 20:18 On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:27:36 -0700, in <4c33bbdd$0$22108$742ec2ed(a)news.sonic.net>, SMS <scharf.steven(a)geemail.com> wrote: >On 06/07/10 3:03 PM, Sysop wrote: >> "LOL!"<lol(a)lol.org> wrote in message >> news:cv7736t69u1flfusq9ns97qld89dt2utp1(a)4ax.com... >>>> >>> "Compact Camera Group Test: >>> SLR-like 'super zoom' cameras" >>> >>> I don't see "P&S" used anywhere in that heading, do you? >>> >> Pretty well almost every camera made is auto focus, and has live view, so >> everything is a P&S. They put live view, and video on dSLR cameras so P&S >> who are arfraid to look through the optical viewfinder would use them. > >Probably not. So many people complain about the lack of an optical >viewfinder on P&S cameras that it's unlikely that a lot of people are >afraid of them. Other than those people that have began using a camera >in the past five to eight years, no one is afraid of OVFs. >[SNIP] Total nonsense. If the market really wanted, then manufacturers would make them. The market prefers EVF, so that's what manufacturers make. -- John "It is better to sit in silence and appear ignorant, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." -Mark Twain "A little learning is a dangerous thing." -Alexander Pope "Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn." -Benjamin Franklin
From: Rich on 6 Jul 2010 21:29 On Jul 6, 5:30 pm, LOL! <l...(a)lol.org> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 13:55:51 -0700 (PDT), RichA <rander3...(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > >http://dpreview.com/news/1007/10070605superzoomgrouptest.asp > > Boy, I bet this part burns you to no end: > > "Despite entry-level DSLRs getting cheaper and cheaper the super zoom > models are as popular as ever." > > LOL! > > Oh, and DO take note of this: > > "Compact Camera Group Test: > SLR-like 'super zoom' cameras" > > I don't see "P&S" used anywhere in that heading, do you? > > LOL! Dpreview's job is to sell, which is why Amazon bought them.
From: Rich on 6 Jul 2010 21:30
On Jul 6, 6:44 pm, John Navas <spamfilt...(a)navasgroup.com> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 13:55:51 -0700 (PDT), in > <a8449e9e-410e-451d-af4d-baa5ff2ba...(a)z8g2000yqz.googlegroups.com>, > > RichA <rander3...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > It's you that's really scraping the barrel. > > Do you really have so much free time that you have to troll incesantly > to fill it up? > > >http://dpreview.com/news/1007/10070605superzoomgrouptest.asp > > Image quality: outdoors / daylight > * Best of the bunch: Canon PowerShot SX 20 IS, Panasonic FZ35 > Image "quality?" Is that what the examples in that group show? |