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Camera software is terrible to the point of being defective (the following is true for all or almost all professional digital cameras): 1) histograms for proce
by frostburg 9y ago
Camera software is terrible to the point of being defective (the following is true for all or almost all professional digital cameras):
1) histograms for processed jpeg using a built in preset instead of the actual raw (want to know if you've really clipped the highlights? Can't)
2) no automated ETTR even on mirrorless cameras / while using live view, despite all the necessary information being available
3) no automated hyperfocal distance focusing, despite this being absolutely trivial to implement on any autofocus body
4) only 1d series canon cameras (which are used for action and sport photography, not landscape, so this feature is mostly useless) do multi-spot averaged metering, despite this being trivial and having been done on old Olympus film cameras
5) they're not programmable (i.e. focus to 5m, fire shutter after 4s, then...)
It's like they don't let anyone using the things with any skill get their hands on the firmware. Using Android would be a disaster of latency, boot times and bloat, they should just stop being terrible.
- mizaru 9y agoSony camera firmwares already include an Android subsystem...
- frostburg 9y agoIt also has a full web browser that is only used to download 'apps' like the remote control one (nice feature, but still), obviously with terrible input due to the camera being a camera. I was stunned when I saw it on my A7r.
- mizaru 9y agoThe browser is part of Android, as are the apps. Input is slightly better on cameras that have a touch screen.