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Alan Browne - 11 Mar 2006 22:51 GMT

A letter to Sony,

http://www.aliasimages.com/SonyReadThis.htm

Shooters: If you have improvements for this webpage, please e-mail me.

Cheers,
Alan

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Stéphane Guillard - 13 Mar 2006 13:48 GMT

Hi Alan,

> http://www.aliasimages.com/SonyReadThis.htm

Care to turn this into a signable form ? so that we (I) can leave my name in
sign of support ?

Cordialement,
--
Stéphane GUILLARD - stephane.guillard@intest.info

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Alan Browne - 15 Mar 2006 01:44 GMT

> Hi Alan,
>
>>http://www.aliasimages.com/SonyReadThis.htm
>
> Care to turn this into a signable form ? so that we (I) can leave my name in
> sign of support ?

Ca me ferrai plaisir, mais, hélas je ne suis pas un adept de
programmation web. Je t'encourage d'écrire directement a Sony via leur
site française, incluant un lien a mon page "Sony".

Salutations,
Alan.

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ian lincoln - 14 Mar 2006 11:55 GMT

P is not needed just M A S and P? Clear that up please.

I'm not sure how they will react about the C mode. Rather than get into
trade mark or 'I thought of that you owe me money!' they will probably not
bother.

You probably need to be more specific about the shortcomings of the current
flash system. I always got the impression from you that minolta systems
were good probably the best.

At this point i'm reminded of the 'ali G show' where he went to a lawyer in
america to try an sue sony. 'i said hey this sony playstation is great but
what if they built a new one but better, and then the PS2 came out. Don't
you think they owe me some money?'

Your first descprition of C mode is actually fully manual. The next is
canons depth of field mode the next is sport mode. Or you have P mode and
set the iso yourself. Motion blur mode? Maxxum 9 is the pro mode. I don't
think even canon put the pic modes on their flagship model. asking for 'iso
priority' well if you just turn the iso down whilst in one of the other
modes.

In fact if you want to be taken seriously drop the whole composition
priority bit.

As for gps etc i think a digital maxxum 9 is the next step. 'Keep knobs but
no menus' is good. Leave the extra widget bits for the maxxum 9 mark II or
maxxum 9 pro. They aren't gonna throw that much into a camera they are not
sure everyone will buy or not. From my jessops experience there are only a
select few who didn't jump to nikon or canon whilst waiting for the 7D.
After that the next cameras were lower end. The cost of development and
likely return on a fully loaded camera like you ask is unlikely. Such would
be buyers probably have a nikon d100 or d200 or canon 5D or 1D. For their
first official foray into the market i would think it will be the 7D with
the niggles such as shooting speed, shutter lag, continuous burst speed,
annoying exposure lock, screen info niggles etc. Maybe a few more
megapixels. More likely still it is another sony but happens to take minolta
lens system and has the antishake tech in it.

>A letter to Sony,
>
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> Cheers,
> Alan

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Alan Browne - 15 Mar 2006 01:41 GMT

> P is not needed just M A S and P? Clear that up please.

There is a "P" and a "(P)" mode. One P is too many, 2 is two many.
There are also 3 user defined modes "1", "2" and "3". There are no
icons of flowers and portraits and so.

M A S P more that covers it for exposure modes unless CA and CS were
added for composition priority.

> I'm not sure how they will react about the C mode. Rather than get into
> trade mark or 'I thought of that you owe me money!' they will probably not
> bother.

> You probably need to be more specific about the shortcomings of the current
> flash system. I always got the impression from you that minolta systems
> were good probably the best.

While at one time a adored it, it was while doing studio work that I
discovered the lack of consistent exposure (frame to frame). This is
the metering system of course that is the bane. Since then I always
shoot studio with manual power settings. Consistent exposure.

Used in situations that are less demanding wrt to frame-to-frame flash
expsosure it is excellent and flexible.

> Your first descprition of C mode is actually fully manual. The next is
> canons depth of field mode the next is sport mode. Or you have P mode and
> set the iso yourself. Motion blur mode? Maxxum 9 is the pro mode. I don't
> think even canon put the pic modes on their flagship model. asking for 'iso
> priority' well if you just turn the iso down whilst in one of the other
> modes.

Are you sure you understand it. For a given EV, film allowed two
degrees of freedom (aperture and speed). With digital you get three
degrees of freedom. Assuming the photographer wants to constain DOF and
speed, then the new variable is ISO. Of course them there can be limits
on that ISO, and at that limit then either speed or aperture would need
to open up.

> In fact if you want to be taken seriously drop the whole composition
> priority bit.

No.

> As for gps etc i think a digital maxxum 9 is the next step. 'Keep knobs but
> no menus' is good. Leave the extra widget bits for the maxxum 9 mark II or
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> megapixels. More likely still it is another sony but happens to take minolta
> lens system and has the antishake tech in it.

Thanks for your comments.

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Ghostaccount28 - 17 Mar 2006 00:17 GMT

Your idea of Composition Priority has already been implemented in the D70
and most likely other DSLRs as well. No point in tossing a fancy name at
something that's already yesterday's news.

>> In fact if you want to be taken seriously drop the whole composition
>> priority bit.
>
> No.

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