nhz said:JennyGW said:I hear an awful lot of demand for 4K video and gps and touch screen and all sorts of fancy stuff that I have no interest in whatsoever as a stills photographer. I kinda resent paying the extra money for all of this stuff I will never use, plus it just adds crud to the buttons, dials and menus.
I realise this probably (ok definitely) won't happen, but it would be awesome to see the 5Div as a pure stills camera with nothing added that isn't towards making a higher quality stills image.
Curious does any brand have such a beast?
With cameras sometimes Less is More, as in less features means much higher price.
I also regret that most cameras are a bit like Christmas trees, but it probably keeps the price down because all these extra features that you don't need means potential extra buyers = more sales volume, lower price.
Most features add VERY little to the real production cost of a camera, much of it is just some electronics, buttons and software. The only real cost is in development. Of course there is another cost for adding these features: missing shots because of all the stuff that gets in the way, but you only notice that after buying ;-)
As others have pointed out, there are a few cameras that go a little bit in the direction you want (e.g. Nikon Df) but nothing that really gets back to basics - probably because there would not be enough buyers.
The above writer make a good point.
Medium format cameras will offer the basics with outstanding sensor performance. Try one of those.
However the features of 4K and GPS and bitching about the cost would be like complaining my calculator has an % key and I never use it, So I think its crazy it has one.
What worth being upset about, is that adding these features on a high end camera has a high profit margin.
The manufactures all know that you may charge $100 for the feature on a $400 camera and will mark up the same feature triple on a high end camera only because they know the buyer will pay for it.
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