Rumor or Real - Sony HD 720P & Touchscreen

[Bodak]

Not only attention seeking but has to have the last say.
Sorry Don, I had given you more credit than was due.

Your head really is in your clacker.
Isn't it time you went to bed.

[Bodak]

otherwise close your phucking mouth.-Sonolta

Nope, ain't going to happen...

[caporip]

I guess you have never been in the Military, eh? Never been smacked down for misinformation or lies? Or is it that you just never had a job where truth and LIES made any difference?

Military? now who's going off topic?

PS...You really are having troubles talking about Video and you really do seem to be one of the ones obcessed with Sonolta.

I was making the point on a Minolta/sony forum where the subject of video has been raised that i have no partricular need for it. In other words and avoiding any of the labels you are so quick to use on others, Don, I was expressing a view. That i thought was what a forum is for. Yes I do know what an interface is but would reiterate that, again in my view, I am unable to see how a touchscreen which needs you physically take your eye from the camera is better than a mechanical interface that you can use while you are composing the shot without the need to take your eye from it this to me seems to be a valid point, but like you say what do i know. Once again i can see the applications in playback but not in taking the shot.

Re live view I can see its uses, having had the 350, but in all honesty its not, in terms of of the stuff i do, a big deal for me. I'm happy with having a 100% viewfinder. If that means i'm out of touch so be it, the point is that even though Sony may, in your view, be late to the table in implementing Liveview and video on its top of the range cameras clearly that is not a problem for a lot of people, myself included.

[Bodak]

So, I take it that you would like to get back on subject so you can continue to abuse those
that YOU feel have a different opinion than your self.

Perhaps David can see what the forum would be like if we all behaved like you.
You started the off subject nonsense by abusing others and now you want to get back on subject.

[caporip]

Well, if Sony want's to continue gaining market share they will need what the others already have and that includes video and live view. Rumor back in the day was that LV was dropped from the a900 so they could rush the a900 to market...Maybe that's why many are calling for an A900 V4, eh?

Why do they have to copy the rest of the market why cant they aim for, say, a perfect (in terms IQ low noise etc etc) conventional top range dslr without the bells and whistles. Yes I know that this mythical beast does not exist yet, but lets say for arguments sake, that the noise problem didnt exist with the A900. Given that the apocryphal tales of existing users of Canikon users switching to it , in its current form, are true then its reasonable to assume that in this hypothetical perfect state such migration would be higher. In other words it would seem that on its current ouput to date it has increased its market share without resorting to adding all the extra/frills on all its models. If it can do this with out the additional cost, and compromise, of the extra features like liveview and video why should it, at this stage, add them? It seems to me that there is an advantage in being last in this particular race when you determine if any such addition would take your market share to the next level you are aspiring to.

[David Kilpatrick]

Since no-one took any notice of my request to cool this stuff, I'm locking this thread. For once, Don is not the culprit. Some members wonder why I have not banned Don, and may think they help by giving him a bit of his own tactics back. I suggest you look at some other threads where Don has been helpful, polite, and no way confrontational (they do exist).

There is no real point in arguing this stuff - it is written in stone that Sony will sooner or later offer both LV and HD video, and that they will either fix the problem of unfavourable NR/noise comparisons, or lose potential market share. Ultimately DSLRs need a paradigm shift, in their current design they make rather clumsy video cameras. The prototypes Minolta made in the 1960s - which eventualy produced cameras like the Riva 105i - are far better basic designs for a still-video hybrid.

No-one here needs to sweat blood about this stuff, since no-one here will have any influence on what actually gets designed and produced.

David