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brainiac wrote:
ChrisDar wrote:
I guess you could call it stubborn but I don\'t. It just doesn\'t make sense to me. If putting video in a professional still camera made sense then why don\'t they make an all in one $8,000.00 fax, print, scan and gallery quality photo printers, or a Ferrari that can also tow a 10,000 pound travel trailer. Same logic. I have nothing against video, I just don\'t want it in my still camera.
In the menu under liveview video functions you will find an option called \'disable\'. If you\'ll excuse me for explaining what that means, if you select it, then no button, no usage, and no feature of the results will have anything whatever to do with video. Using it means that the camera is identical to a camera in which a video feature does not exist, except for that single menu item. It\'s also completely free of charge, included in the basic camera. Now, selecting that option, once, the first time you switch on the camera may be too much like hard work for you, or you may be too lazy to browse the menus or even read the instructions, or you may simply take pleasure in denying others features that they might find useful, but if not, then what imaginable reason is there to bear a grudge against this feature? Liveview is a useful feature in certain circumstances, for instance as a very reliable and accurate focussing aid for macro and landscape. So we have liveview, and the camera contains memory. The cost in raw materials of feeding liveview through a processor and writing the results to memory is so minimal that I am willing to bet this feature had no influence whatsoever on the price point of the camera.
So really, those saying that inclusion of video is bad are just puritans trying to ban other people from dancing because only their kind of fun (bitching) is the one true way.
We\'ve been through all this with liveview, a feature which many derided, and which turned out to be very useful, and also with joystick focus point selection on the Mk3\'s which again, many said mustn\'t be added, and not a whisper of complaint has been heard since it was added. Probably many of the naysayers have realised that it\'s a better system, and have quietly adopted it. Some people think all change is Satanic, and it\'s very important to ignore and ridicule them, otherwise change for the better never happens.
I agree with your line of thinking here brainiac, but it doesn\'t apply very well a couple of features I find unnecessary for my photography, namely full frame and/or high megapixel count. Those are features that really do increase a camera\'s cost significantly, and are much more inconvenient to work around.
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