The clincher is the LCD? What about resolution? Color accuracy? Noise suppression? Built in anti-shake vs paying for it in each lens you buy? Availability of lenses in the focal lengths you're likely to buy? I NEVER even considered the LCD as an important make or break component.

The clincher is the LCD? What about resolution? Color accuracy? Noise suppression? Built in anti-shake vs paying for it in each lens you buy? Availability of lenses in the focal lengths you're likely to buy? I NEVER even considered the LCD as an important make or break component.

It looks like a PRESS HERE AND TURN THIS WHILE TILTING THE CAMERA monstrosity.

When will people learn that a dedicated control for each function is best? How will you keep the camera at eye level and quickly dial in -1 overall exposure comp, +1 flash comp, drop the ISO to 100, and set the correct color balance without having to hunt down multiple menu options? Minolta (the guys Sony bought their DSLR from) had the user interface perfect on the 7D(6 Megapixels, most important items have dedicated buttons, dials, multi-directional toggles, or switches. You could do all that I mentioned without taking your eyes out of the viewfinder.

PS: I did that adjustment dance just yesterday. I went from 0 EXP COMP, 0 Flash COMP, Daylight Balance, 400ISO to -1/+1, Flash Balance, ISO 100. Shoot outside at the 7 year old showing off his skateboarding, turn when hearing the 3 year old squeal in delight and see him standing in the doorway giving the cat an awkward carry hug. [Flash power up due to distance to subject, EXP at -1 due to dark interior of home behind subject and the dark blue he was wearing, ISO100 for less noise and better image quality, color balance set to flash because the aftermarket flash on the camera is not the same as daylight in terms of color temp. Two seconds max. Most of that was picking the color temp.

Funny. Plam doesn't give me grief over warranty issues when I install third party software or even leave the cellular carrier the phone was first sold from. What's the deal Apple?

To:Deviant Ollam @ Sep 22nd 2007 3:17PM
From: ME @ Now
Subj: ren
Message: Rename malware*.exe kickassmediaforyou.avi.exe and let some poor schmuck with an un-patched copy of windows get exploited.

We could even get some PPV out of this. I can see the marketing schemes already. "Hot robot on robot action!"

hmmmmmmm.. anyone think they should just have some robot on robot combat to decide who prevails here?

I shoot large format (8x10)[that's inches not mm.]
Yawn.
At a mere 1000dpi I need 80 megapixels. A more useful 3000dpi weighs in at 720Mpixels.

A shame. This law needs to be vetoed. We need idiot teens to self select themselves out of the gene pool. How will humanity retain its fitness if we continue to eliminate every method of weeding out those that we don't want swimming in the gene pool? It's a shame that they do bend lots of nice cars in the process though, but it's the price one must pay to weed out those who can't be bothered to pay attention to the job at hand when operating dangerous machinery.

Dear God! Another Robot Jox is on the way!