Tried to buy a 'basic' cell phone lately?
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of bill pearce
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:30 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Ornery mood
"I have frequently thought all the feature options are a pain in
the .... Either you spend too much time searching menus or you make
a mistake. Remember how much easier it was to learn how to use a
really well designed camera with a limited feature set? Working
around the mechanical limitation just became second nature. There are
frequent threads on the Nikon lists longing for the simplicity of a
digital version of the FM, the same way we have talked about a
digital OM."
Once I find myself agreeing with Winsor. Should I be disturbed?
This isn't just cameras. It's the whole business of adding
microprocessors to things that may or may not need them
(refrigerators?), and as processors get stronger, engineers and
marketing executives just can't stop. Look at the new BMW's with the
much maligned i drive.
I think that cameras have been designed by engineers that don't
particularly like to take pictures. Looking back to my days in the
aircraft plant, there were more engineers that were interested in my
cameras than there were ones that flew.
Bill Pearce
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