Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I always thought that the convenience of being able to take and download an image to a computer, subsequently adjust it and then e-mail to anywhere in the world in minutes would have been a benefit to photographers, outweighing some of the inconvenience??!! Kind of like when they invented the automobile. Everyone that owned a horse didn't like the idea. Inertia...the human constant." Peter K - -----Original Message----- From: ottmar-x@t-online.de [mailto:ottmar-x@t-online.de] Sent: Monday, February 01, 1999 1:22 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Re: glass or plastic > I reviewed the Kodak DC260 for a UK publication and *HATED* the thing. The > handling was truly dreadful. Fifteen seconds from pushing the on button to > being able to take a picture (there's a software patch which improves > this, but my colleague found it made only a tiny difference). Neither of > the viewfinders is adequate. A horrible machine. I made the mistake of trying to take a portrait with one of these horrible things today. Changing the aperture takes at least 12 pushes of several cryptic buttons and then the flash didn't fire anyway. No wonder no one has bought ours. A lot of consumer digital cameras have a terribly long delay when pushing the button. We just got a shipment of cameras from Jenoptic (formerly Carl Zeiss Jena) that were so hideous in this regard that the boss packed them up and sent them back the same day. The Olympus cameras, which otherwise aren't too bad, sometimes suffer from this too... Keith Bingman Riedheim, Germany