Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:52:37 GMT, "RG" wrote:

I have a 4mp Olympus Stylus 410
that takes very nice photos and is weather resistant. But I rarely use it,
and one of the reasons is because it is so different in ergonomics and logic
than my D70 or D200. I'm thinking a Nikon P&S would at least have Nikon
genetics and therefore would be more intuitive and in synch with the cameras
I primarily shoot with.

That is so true.

I don't like the D50 that I have because it's counter intuitive to my
Olympus cameras. I have a little Canon something or other p&s that I
take around in the truck and have the same problem - it seems like the
controls are all backwards. Curiously, the Hasselblad is pretty
straight forward and even though I haven't used it much outdoors, it's
easy to use.

Oly also did a rather odd thing with the E-500 - they changed some of
the function names - why they did that I don't know. But you can
figure it out pretty quickly as compared to fumbling around with the
D50.

You would think they would standardize certain controls across the
industry wouldn't you?



I bought a Canon A710 Powershot as a gift for my wife, and both of us
really like it. It has very little shutter lag, a nice optical zoom
lens, high quality images, easy controls, and a really large LCD screen
on the backside, plus the usual viewfinder.