The Rant Thread

[Chairman Bill]

Like it says, post your rants here. And to kick us off ...

F&@$!ng X100s! Too many f&@$!ng fiddly f&@$!ng buttons. I need to be able to set ISO, aperture, shutter speed, and the focus point. That's it. Nothing more. Being able to review the images, is useful, so we can keep that bit too. But everything else, I'd love to be able to disable. I'm fed up with accidently hitting some button or other, and suddenly I've got the back screen all lit up with loads of info I don't need & don't want, and I can't make it go away. OK, yes I can, but only so it them appears in the bleedin' viewfinder. I don't want it there either. Just bloody go away. Stop doing things I really don't want/need you to damned well do.

Somebody, please give me a camera that's like an old film camera, but with a digital sensor. Please. Pretty please.

[mezzoduomo]

Leica X (Typ 113).
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1082919-REG/leica_18441_x_digital_compact_camera.html

[Tim Lookingbill]

$2000 for a freakin' P&S?!

Oh dear Lord, I feel a rant coming on!

[mezzoduomo]

$2000 for a freakin' P&S?!

Only twice the price of the camera that induces rant-worthy levels of frustration in the OP. 
I do love mine: I'd call it "rave-worthy".

Then there's the new Leica 'Q'. $4,250 for a freakin' P&S.

[Otto Phocus]

My rant?

Photographers would probably do a lot better if they cared less about what other photographers choose to do/not do/use/don't use.

Bonus rant:  An opinion, by definition is "a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty*."  One can disagree with an opinion without being wrong; just like one can agree with an opinion without being right.

*http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/opinion

[PeterAit]

Amen. My D-600 has 19 buttons/controls, my E-M1 has 18.

[Peter Mellis]

Just came across this rant. I am just getting used to a recently acquired X100T and am almost on the same page. After playing around a bit with it, I came to a similar set of conclusions. I like the camera and the results that I have gotten so far, but this thing is really too close to being the definition of a computer with a lens attached and I really don't care about most of the goodies. The size trade off is that you keep hitting buttons by accident. I wanted something small, with good IQ; it's that, but is really fiddly. And the lack of understandable documentation is pretty sad coming from a company that seems to be more customer focused than most.

[shawnino]

Like it says, post your rants here. And to kick us off ...



Somebody, please give me a camera that's like an old film camera, but with a digital sensor. Please. Pretty please.

Indeed.
I'm told Leica recently made a digital-M with no backscreen at all, but then had the, um, chutpah, to charge extra for it.
Sounds somewhat urban-legendy because Leica comes in for much grief on their pricing (a large measure of it deserved in my opinion), but somehow, I believe it.

But agreed: there's so much on my camera I don't use.
I could learn how to use it if I needed to, but for my work it's just superfluous.