You have to be brave to ask the question "Will M43 be around in six years?" Might as well tar and feather yourself and get the job done to your liking.
Well I like to ask awkward unpopular questions. I want to have time to decide what to do should we have a Samsung decision with M43.
Even keeping the gear until it wears out is an option.
Exactly. I'm keeping my pair of E-P5 and a bunch of lenses going forever as they do what I like, when they are both worn out then there's always the pair of E-PL5 that preceded them. I could go for a while yet.....
Here in America, you have to re-write proposals submitted by technical people with a masters degree. Seems like getting the degree is a matter of showing up. Or maybe just getting a tuition loan and buying the credits.
The problem I have had, is with junior Engineers who have created a fantastic FEM computer model of a structure, but then can’t figure out the details of the connections that hold the beams and columns together because the computer is incapable of thinking and inventing.
I had to make a little model with cardboard to illustrate secondary bending during a heated site meeting where I was the peasant working for the steel contractor and junior was backed up by his female boss who found it “offensive” to be technically challenged by a male engineer. We were talking about a structure that was dangerous as designed. Even the guys on the shop floor could see the error.
When things fall down people get killed.
I have amazed junior draughtsmen when I have prepared 3d sketches with just my admittedly expensive Caran d Ache clutch pencil and a piece of paper.
Nobody can draw by hand these days .
Hmmm, familiar story. In many fields university trained "experts" are useless.
Australia is breeding uni trained useless people (get a degree is some esoteric subject and end up as a barista at some coffee joint) and there's a shortage of real people doing real work like plumbers and electricians who earn a hell of a lot more than the experts soon after they get out of trade college.
Read? They don't even talk. They sit on a couch and tweet at each other while watching TV.
The streets of Sydney are full of people wandering along hunched over their bloody phones playing games, texting, whatever. It's ludicrous.
They talk at dinner because you can't type and shove food in your mouth at the same time, but if you could.....
Well my son here in Italy is in charge of preparing the pasta for lunch.
Write: We no longer teach long hand writing in some public schools. I've had young people say, "Wow you can make a signature. Cool!"
But on the other hand here in Italy, senior school is still quite tough and our young people get jobs easily when they go to the UK or the USA because they have a higher level of education and general culture than many of the locals ( I come from the UK BTW). The same goes for our universities.
My daughter was a 6 month exchange student to New York State up north somewhere in the 1990's. She found the schooling about 2 years behind Australia and even our standards are not the best and falling. That mirrored what one of my school friends in the 1950's said when his family came back from some long posting in USA, he had to have work sent to him from Australia so he could fit back in at the correct year level, he said USA schooling was behind by 2 years even then.
World school ranking as in 2015
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...s-of-education-across-the-world-10247405.html hard to spot tiny Singapore is #1.
I, for many years saw the stuff my wife prepared for her students and I see the texts my son has to study at Uni as I have to give him a hand with English texts sometimes. All that creepy snowflake whining that I read about in the USA and UK is not tolerated here.
So here in Europe at least, not all is lost yet.
Here in Oz it is often a matter of being a foreigner that causes the problems, until they settle in to the language, it's a land of migrants. The latest census shows that 40% of people born in Australia have one or both parents born overseas, increasingly from Asia. Previously of course mostly UK sourced, but now from everywhere, legal or illegal entry.
But sadly the overall trend seems to follow the US way, it is dumbing down badly.
The lady at the post office tells me she has to show people under the age of 40 how to address a envelope. That's because America is so advanced.
I'm not making this up.
Eventually, if you write a novel you will have to make it into a U-Tube video if you want anyone to "read" it.
Oh yeah, this is a photography site. I like my M43, and I don't care if somebody likes FF better, or if M43 is around in 6 years because my C2100 and C5050 are still useful. As long as they make AA batteries and the memory cards don't short themselves out, I'll be OK. They can take a photo as good as any old cell phone. Even better!
Yes, I still get out my Oly C-730 from time to time and see if it works and to recharge its batteries. I use IKEA LADDA AA 2450mAh batteries as the cheapest and best available.
Regards..... Guy
