It is fine to expect that technology will advance and make life easier in the future, with the human resourcefulness it will eventually be there to meet your expectation that I am sure . However , it will take times to mature and advance , and hence patience and to moderate one's expectation.
Photo Cavendish's point is " it will take a long long time " to mature and not in the near future and pending the maturity of such new tech, he prefers his eyes thru the viewfinder for critical focusing which I think is a fair statement and a " No Rush" practical approach as practiced by most photogs here .
To be at the leading edge of technology one not only read and mouth technology one needs to know the limit of technology as well. Without an understanding of how it can be implemented in a particular sector it is at best an un-informed guess or a regurgitation as gospel truth basing purely on what you read or the manufacturers "intent" of launch of its new products. It amazes and amused me to hear predictive claim of new standard when no D300 or D3 existed outside the wall of Nikon factories in Japan.... dun jump the gun wait for it to fire.
No manufacturer will push out propaganda that will appear to the consumers as inferior or have stagnated in its technology to its rival, the final test of the product will be at the end users, of whether the product is an improvement or have stagnated from its last product, and it is best left to the real experts. ..... over hyping improvement and creating a high expectation amongst targeted users is a double edge sword and a good example is the recent 1D3 and its supposedly all dancing and singing new multiple focus points , and so were previous pre-launch specifications and the subsequent let down of heighten expectation purely based on specs on Nikon Product.
People who just read that Nikon is implementing a 900,000 pixel LCD monitor and straight away jumped to the conclusion that the Canon 3 inch LCD at lesser resolution is "crap" as compare to either their Handphone or the yet to be produce Nikon Products are ignorant at best of what is new and what can be implemented. It appears that , over nite , CS is full of technology experts and camera review experts that should have been working in either Canon or Nikon to help produce better camera , instead of idle talking here in CS.
If only our local "experts" have read that there is in fact a 100MB pixels sensor that has been in use for years , they would certainly in the same breath proclaimed existing Top of the line DSLR and even the yet to be manufacture D300 and D3 as craps too since on spec these cameras have less than 1/5 of what a 100 MB sensor is capable of doing , and of course insist to have the 100MB sensor as the only sensor to be installed in their preferred camera .
With every new camera launch , without fail there will be circus in town with two distinct groups. The Expert Hands-on Review corner and the Technology review corner with their supporters cheering them on.
On the review corner talk show are hosted by 5-minutes-hands-on-camera- reviewer chipping their 2 photons worth of what they think and what it should have been! Basically 5 minutes hands-on "expert" view of what they feel or what they heard ,some even without an understanding on how some of the new function works ..... and quickly proclaimed why they would not buy, more to agitate intended buyers and perhaps as a troll, who really care if you buy or dun buy? Yes, the troll works hence this prolong thread.
On the Technology table , there will be "technology experts " telling you what latest technology should be incorporated , basically it center on better and cheaper and throwing in their expert knowledge on incorporation of new gizmos , latest tech or whatever they happened to hear or read and and insist that they should pay peanuts for it....... no wonder they are not working in Nikon or Canon!
Thanks for the entertainments !
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10 X:thumbsd:: for reality and substance.
