tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post8762320095292703867..comments2024-03-26T23:27:56.399-07:00Comments on B: Butt-ugly camerasBlake Andrewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187987264904729243noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-79796675793139264542012-01-19T18:12:51.049-08:002012-01-19T18:12:51.049-08:00I rather like the Pentax flash. Did you try click...I rather like the Pentax flash. Did you try clicking it into action? Quite fun. In fact I think I'd sit all evening clicking it up and down, studying the fiendish mechanism, till it broke.Nils Jorgensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11436070402747096003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-57570497467990356922012-01-19T16:22:13.639-08:002012-01-19T16:22:13.639-08:00I know it's sick but I love the way my G12 loo...I know it's sick but I love the way my G12 looks!Benhttp://www.bennettlevinephotographs.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-5706094141162708742012-01-17T11:34:20.640-08:002012-01-17T11:34:20.640-08:00I think the new Fuji camera has weird lines and is...I think the new Fuji camera has weird lines and is blatantly trying to look like a Leica. It is embarrassing as HP laptops that mimic MacBooks, even down to their black keys on silver chassis. <br /><br />Anyone who buys the new Fuji is obviously more interested in looking like a film photographer than shooting photos, since because of Fuji's poor AF system, it isn't very good for the later (assuming they don't radically improve it from the X100).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-84441693770654004002012-01-16T17:22:35.622-08:002012-01-16T17:22:35.622-08:00The problem with those "tough" cameras i...The problem with those "tough" cameras is that they have the lens where an optical viewfinder used to be. That's why they look totally deformed, like a human face with no mouth would look.A.G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18172957704712290735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-22349749114851341142012-01-15T07:03:10.293-08:002012-01-15T07:03:10.293-08:00Fuji and Oly have attempted pretty slick "vin...Fuji and Oly have attempted pretty slick "vintage" designs with great success (at least from an estetic point of view). Let's hope other manufacturers will follow.Bogdanhttp://www.studiosolaris.com/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-60055377966028828942012-01-15T02:48:45.483-08:002012-01-15T02:48:45.483-08:00I have felt for a long time that camera designers ...I have felt for a long time that camera designers are taking their cues from the wrong sources. So many of the digi cams are just so unfunctional for western hands over the age 14. Making things smaller is fine but for pities sake allow enough space to be able to press one button at a time. At the other end of the scale the Leica M9 needs a built in hand grip not the post modernist add on that replaces the bottom plate. Yes I will get covered in vitriolic bile for suggesting that the M's are anything other than perfect. Yes, that design has stood the test of time but lets not forget that when the M's were first made the metal forming methods were primitive to what they are today I sincerely hope the M10 moves closer to the S1 than to the M2...Michael Wardhttp://perceptivelight.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-82085603598019279242012-01-15T02:29:40.524-08:002012-01-15T02:29:40.524-08:00Great post, I'll never be able to look at a NE...Great post, I'll never be able to look at a NEX again without a chuckle. There was a slight movement by Olympus and Canon in the early nineties to produce cameras that were ergonomically functional with nice grips. Apple did the QuickTake camera and that was ok but it would have been good to have set Jonathan Ive loose on that product but I think it may have been canned before he came into his own. Jobs and Ive was a marriage made in design heaven Curtesy of the Royal College of Art in London still probably one of the best design schools on the planet...Michaelhttp://perceptivelight.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-93691920914811392012-01-14T22:54:56.488-08:002012-01-14T22:54:56.488-08:00I think that the majority of the general public li...I think that the majority of the general public likes to photograph themselves for Facebook so the Samsung dual LCD makes perfect sense. The subject is the photographer, and whomever they are posing with, so they will want to make sure they are lined up in the frame.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-71186908067422262082012-01-14T18:20:46.868-08:002012-01-14T18:20:46.868-08:00Cough. Labor Day.Cough. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ti1Y3rKuCs" rel="nofollow">Labor Day</a>.microcordhttp://microcord.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-27322177058900446952012-01-14T17:36:35.799-08:002012-01-14T17:36:35.799-08:00You've got a point Microcord. My white mouse s...You've got a point Microcord. My white mouse shows lots of wear. My keyboard too. Maybe we can agree on some middle ground. What if we limit technical gadgets to being white after Memorial Day?Blake Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07187987264904729243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-79005130198107528312012-01-14T16:46:37.725-08:002012-01-14T16:46:37.725-08:00I'm a little confused here, Blake. Remind me a...I'm a little confused here, Blake. Remind me again: How does the color white that should be reserved for things that are infrequently touched or else cleaned often differ from the color white used for beautifully designed Apple products (e.g. the once white, now brownish keyboard of my crappy and visibly decomposing "Powerbook")?<br /><br />(Meanwhile, <a href="http://collectiblend.com/Cameras/Compagnie-Francaise-de-Photographie/Photosphere-4-Stereo.html" rel="nofollow">another Pamela Anderson camera</a>.)microcordhttp://microcord.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-90909200827887657622012-01-14T12:57:09.445-08:002012-01-14T12:57:09.445-08:00Lol, all sadly true. But it is good to see that Fu...Lol, all sadly true. But it is good to see that Fuji can make a camera that looks attractive as well as having a decent set of features. They deserve to do well-and Leica will probably be rather worried ;-)JRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08930997856836723319noreply@blogger.com