Hi. Just want to give some reasons why I still find this camera something of the hottest I've seen. Used to do analog cameras before, then lost interest for a some decade or so 🙂 mainly because I was expecting just a camera like this one with the new medium of digital treatment, but it never seemed to happen?
All of those cameras represents new ways to make that photo, and they should invite to new ways to handle it too. Reading the reviews on this one made me interested enough though, to get one. And I'm sold on it. It's handling is 'incredibly' fast, hi-tech, and smooth. The processor seems really nice and the photos it takes are quite satisfactorily , well, as far as I'm concerned. And I do have some experience from both photographing and darkrooms, although of the older analogue variant. And anyway, we all have some software on our computer, if we now would like to add or retract, don't we? As for taking videos, well, I can see why it invites to it. But it's not a video-camera, is it?
To me it's a camera for taking photos, hopefully in all kinds of lights and preferably without that flash. I never liked flashes myself, it may add to the 'naturalness' for some, but I prefer a camera that can do it without. The gps and wi fi is a cool touch that I may have use for at times, but probably not too often. I don't need it to make a photo, but I do need a good camera. And this one is a seriously good camera, I like the way it feels a little heavy in my hand, the response I get from it, and the intuitive UI (user Interface) it presents me.
Canon has nothing to be ashamed about there, it reminds me of the way Window used to be, and why so many enjoyed it then. It really is intuitive. Another thing is that I don't think you can get away with is any less buttons, knobs, etc, than what you already have on it, not if you want to offer the same intuitive UI. So those complaining of that misses the point. It's perfect for its size, even that boring quirk with the flashlight position. Anyway, found a '2' on its serial and so I downloaded the update, but I think I'll wait. Got me some 12 minutes on 1920x1080 at 60 bps, zooming in and out every 10-20 second, before it gave up and started to flash that battery warning.
The real point to me though is that I never thought of it as a movie camera, I wanted a compact, small but well built, with a good zoom, good light sensitivity, fast handling enabling me to make those cool low light photos, and furthermore that tried to implement technology. Now I'm just hoping on some cool hacks for its soft-('firm' as in bios)-ware, to make this one into a 'cult camera', as we say in Sweden. What I don't like with the update btw, is that I found no speccifications as to what changes the developers had made? Makes it questionable to me as I prefer to know such before implementing the code. Another con might be if it is true that the lenses let in specs of dust etc, through the zooms motion? Saw some complaining about it, and that one I would deem a lot more seriously than any video camera abilities. But if youy want ten minutes of continious video then they are there, at least on this camera, without any update needed.
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Can't you turn of 'emoticons'?
Like smileys but not those yellow overblown moons.
