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RoseandCharles wrote:
"People suffering from large dimensions" makes it sound like an ailment. But I don't feel so bad for them, since they have tons of options to choose from. It's us petite-sized folks that lack so many options when it comes to full-frame.
It's likely that Sony, being a Japanese company, is making stuff firstly for their native market and general Japanese sizing. They're also making what their engineers and designers think would differentiate them in the market, and size is one of them. If they made a DSLR-sized mirrorless like Samsung NX1, there would be complaints from the other direction, that it's too big.
And it would be derided as yet another useless feature and not suitable for working pros, etc. The Canon tech was also gimmicky and had a ton of users for whom it simply did not work.
https://www.dpreview.com/articles/6531126959/looking-back-canon-s-eye-controlled-focus
"As I recall, there were generally two sets of users when it came to this technology: those for whom it worked, and those for whom it absolutely didn't. There weren't many in between.
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So, would I exchange today's modern AF systems for eye-controlled focus? Not a chance. Features like face detection (and even eye detection) actually solve the 'where to focus' problem in many cases, and features like subject tracking would be hard to give up.
I've casually asked some of my contacts at Canon about this over the past couple of years, but nobody has ever given me a clear answer. (It's far enough in the past that a lot of people at Canon today probably don't know the exact reason.) If I had to guess, it's probably because it didn't work well for a lot of people, which likely had an impact on customer satisfaction."
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I can tell you it is an ailment. I have problems finding proper shoes due to lack of right size. This month I had to search 9 shops to get new pair of running shoes (no, online shops did not have anything useful either). This bodyform of Sony FF MILC is a real problem for me, yet I want to be able to use some useful features like "Bright Monitoring" of R2 which no other manufacturer seems to get right. I liked Loxia 21mm if nothing else of FE lens lineup. Some really useful features, but so much other hindrances I gave up with it as Pentax did everything else better with K-1.
I am truly sad A9 was designed how it was. A7 series could have been the small one and 9 a bit more of everything, including size. A7MK3 models should have had A9 AF and speed, at least the S-model. But this, this is a wasted opportunity to steal users from 1-series CaNikon camp. See it however you like. I doubt many of you are really buying The Thing either, just defending the brand.
Hat tip to RoseandCharles for showing something real with the small hands picture. It is the exact opposite of my problem. Add-on grip will not solve it, buttons are way too small and tightly placed. No amount of customization will solve mindlessly placed physical controls. Rolling dial ergonomics even went backwards from mk1 models and so they seem to stay in A9 design. I do not expect for many to understand, I design user interfaces and A9 is a horror story as it is - a replica of A7mk2 scheme. Heck, I am a bit astounded how this came to pass. Proper design should be validated with large enough user base with all kinds of traits related to actual use cases before going into production. My guess is that this validation was done with in-house software engineers. Maybe the "still" camera unit should consult video camera folks in-house a bit? Having operated Sony PMW-200 shouldercam few times the ergonomics were really well thought out.
Edited on May 16, 2017 at 06:15 PM · View previous versions
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And, few hundred grams saved by modern MILC means nothing.