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User Experience is Top Metric Again

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Rock and Rollei Senior Member • Posts: 2,900
Re: User Experience is Top Metric Again
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It's always been true. You take more and better pictures with a camera you enjoy using than with one with superior performance that you don't enjoy using. And the technical differences between cameras have never been as stark as people on these forums make out - it's almost as though the "digital" in the site's title refers to opinions, something is either 100% perfect or 0% useful, never anywhere in between.

I often say that Sony is a top consumer electronics company, whereas Canon is a top camera company. For me, Canon cameras have always made it easy to get the right results, whereas Sonys, even when technically superior, have always been more of a PITA, from menu structures, viewfinders (I've yet to find a Sony camera whose viewfinder doesn't trigger my residual balance disorder, although I've not tried one in the last year) or aftersales support. Sonys feel to me like the results of various compartmentalised departments all stuck together, Canons feel like there's an integrated approach. Now of course YMMV, others might disagree with all of that, and that's fine - it's user experience either way.

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