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What about Small internal memory or small memory card supplied with the camera. Most times it's so small (10 to 20 MB) it's just useless.

Another feature i usually disable on a camera, auto trimer.

I never had used the direct printing from the camera.

The strobing Flash is pretty bad also, and AF lamps are usually to bright upsetting the subject.

Camera to camera file transfer by IR, is somebody using that?

ISO 6400 on the new cameras.

But i think the worst of all is putting a huge amount of mega pixels in a very small sensor.

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'Attitude is a little thing that can make big differences'

Fujifilm Finepix E550 and F20
Nikon D40 and 55-200 VR.
 
nickoly said:
auto ISO.

At least with digital zoom you know when you are using it, any
problems are self-inflicted, and you know what it going on. Much the
same can be said for the other.

With auto ISO, you don't know what is going on.

besides, I believe digital zoom can be useful at times.
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Have to disagree with you there - digital zoom is just a marketing con. On the other hand Auto ISO is a genuinely useful feature: there are times when you want to fix both your shutter speed and your aperture. For example, I use a tiny bit of fill flash on most of my wedding photography, but when the ambient light is too bright the shutter speed required for the flash causes over-exposure if you don't have the camera set to automatically reduce the aperture to avoid this. To have auto ISO would be great so that I could decide the aperture that I want and keep it there.
 
Casio S770...$179
Memory card...$20

Quickie videos uploaded and sent to grandmas and grandpas 5 states away and starving for baby and toddler cooing and talking...priceless.
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nickoly said:
With auto ISO, you don't know what is going on.
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I use my D200s auto ISO quite often - it's very useful and it tells me exactly what it's doing and when.
nickoly said:
besides, I believe digital zoom can be useful at times.
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Never. Crop on your computer, not in the camera.

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dherzstein said:
...on DSLR cameras? Does anyone ever use this?
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Only those poor deluded Canon folk... : ) And I doubt if anyone uses it more than once 'just to see'.

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"auto" ISO seems to be always at the low end on the Canon A series, if I take a shot at night it never seems to set an ISO higher than 100 with a really long shutter speed.

When I select the ISO myself at 200 the shutter speed is shorter than auto ISO, which is proof it defaults to the low end (which is fine with me).
 
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NRG said:
From what I am reading, unless your camera's name is Olympus, dust
removal is negligible. Better off using a blower or carefully
cleaning the sensor yourself.
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It's been about a year since I cleaned my XTi sensor, and it is the camera with which I expose the chamber most frequently. There are a few tiny grey spots at f/32.

My 30D needs to be cleaned almost every outing, with a 1.4x TC never leaving the camera most outings.

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John

 
If you look on the Canon forums (I'm sure nobody would mind too much) you'll find loads of people wishing it were something else like mirror lock-up.

Personally I've never even considered using it. I do this for a living, so there's no way I'm ever going to waste time like that.
 
Jonathan Demarais said:
Digital zooming in P&Ss (tied for worst with 1/2.5" sensors)
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I like the way digital zoom is implemented in my Contax i4R, and it has the beloved 1/2.5" sensor, too! With a fixed focal length of 6.5 mm (39mm equivalent), the field of view is just a bit too wide for my tastes. I like to frame my shots in the field, not on the computer, so digital zoom is better than no zoom since I can't find a fixed focal length digital camera with a 50mm equivalent lens. I can put in 1.3X digital zoom to get a very comfortable effective focal length.

Another advantage for me is that the digital zoom in the i4R is applied in discrete, repeatable steps rather than a continuous zoom effect. I like the consistency in relative size and distance relationships that I get by shooting all pictures in a series with the same focal length. This is much harder to accomplish in cameras with continuous zoom lenses that don't give a numeric focal length readout.

Finally, with digital zoom, unlike optical zoom, I don't lose any depth of field or lens speed. No matter how I "zoom" my shot, I still have a 6.5mm F/2.8 lens that can give me everything in focus from less than 5 ft. to infinity even wide open.
 
the EVF has been the reason for me to buy, then get rid of, a number of so-called quality p&s cameras. The second is face/smile technology...absolutely and ridiculously silly. Remember, these are MY opinions. :-)
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charlesh
 
charlesh said:
The second is face/smile technology...absolutely and ridiculously silly.
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Just a comment here . . .

Many in this thread keep talking about 'face' and 'smile' detection being a waste . . .

Well, that may be for those of us who have camera knowledge and like to tinker with settings.

But don't forget about the masses out there who buy digital P&S cameras that just want pictures, barely even know how to turn the camera on, and don't have a clue what the difference between shutter speed, f:stop and ISO settings are!

To these people . . . face and smile detection is a blessing!

At least now their friends and family members are in focus instead of that tree in the background.

And I'm sure they outnumber us here on the chat boards at least 100-1 . . . if not more!

As for the print button . . . something I'd never use . . . but those same people I just mention do!

Don't forget . . . we are the minority . . . simple point and shooters are the majority of camera buyers out there!

And they are who all of these creative camera features are for . . . not us.

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Colorful Colorado



Remember . . . always keep the box and everything that came in it!
 
I Totally agree with you.

Even i will dare to say i would love to have Face detection on my Nikon D40, it has been several times when i take a picture and the background is focus instead of my subject.

There, i just said it, now do your thing.
MusicDoctorDJ said:
Many in this thread keep talking about 'face' and 'smile' detection
being a waste . . .

Well, that may be for those of us who have camera knowledge and like
to tinker with settings.

But don't forget about the masses out there who buy digital P&S
cameras that just want pictures, barely even know how to turn the
camera on, and don't have a clue what the difference between shutter
speed, f:stop and ISO settings are!

To these people . . . face and smile detection is a blessing!

At least now their friends and family members are in focus instead of
that tree in the background.

And I'm sure they outnumber us here on the chat boards at least 100-1
. . . if not more!

As for the print button . . . something I'd never use . . . but those
same people I just mention do!

Don't forget . . . we are the minority . . . simple point and
shooters are the majority of camera buyers out there!

And they are who all of these creative camera features are for . . .
not us.

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J. D.
Colorful Colorado



Remember . . . always keep the box and everything that came in it!
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'Attitude is a little thing that can make big differences'

Fujifilm Finepix E550 and F20
Nikon D40 and 55-200 VR.
 
My vote goes to Kodak for their totally unnecessary "Easyshare" implementation and its continuation.

I can't believe they're STILL wasting a 'share' button on the backs of even their current models. And they make such a big deal about what's really pretty ordinary software.

It may have been a cute marketing exercise 5 years ago (before PictBridge came along), but computer and printer technology, camera/computer/printer interfaces, and editing/filing/sharing software have all come a long way in that time frame.

Easyshare is dead — sorry Kodak.
 
... on Pentax K10, you can enable one of the dial to control ISO in many modes (Av, Tv and Sv) and have the ISO displayed in VF so that you always know what's going on.

In addition, you can impose lower and upper limits and use one button to switch auto ISO on at will when you need it while turning the ISO dial will get you back in control instantly without ever having to leave the VF from the eye.

Some of the most useful addition to exposure control in recent years IMO...
 
nickoly said:
auto ISO.

At least with digital zoom you know when you are using it, any
problems are self-inflicted, and you know what it going on. Much the
same can be said for the other.

With auto ISO, you don't know what is going on.
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Well, the value of auto-ISO depends a lot on how it is implemented. If it is always giving you shots with too long an exposure, or the lens wider than you want it, because the ISO is too low, or going to high ISO when it isn't needed, then it is a nuisance, but there are many ways to implement auto-ISO, including many ways never yet implemented.

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John

 
Yes, I agree with you that the masses want these things to make things easier for them. We (photo enthusiasts) have latched on to these cameras because many of them take damn good photographs. Do we have the right to discard features that we don't use and request features that we like. I think not.

Cheers
 
: )

Some of the Canon users feeling about the print button spilled over into the Nikon forums - some shoot both brands. Mostly, we sympathised; every makers has its foibles.

But surely someone, somewhere, manages to shoot pix that don't ever need PPing and can be printed straight from the camera. Surely...

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Rob

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