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Footloose
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I won't be buying one of these ... I suppose a reasonable idea, but flawed unless they providing a button which disables the touch-screen when you have taken a shot and just left the camera on waiting the next shot. You pick the camera up, activate some menu and Murphy's Law being what it is, you can be sure some setting has been changed. What's wrong with buttons? Since the menu systems on these things are already pretty torturous, how can a touch-screen make accessing the the menus considerably less convoluted than the usual buttons?
I suspect some new bright spark in R&D has come up with this idea, the benefit purportedly being a reduction in assembly-line costs. It's certainly gives the product a 'High Tech' image, but this buzzword has a poor track record in relation to a much more important one, called 'Ergonomics'.
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Malcolm_Stewart
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The touch-screen on my latest Sony camcorder, an HDR-HC5E is pretty good as far as touch-screens go. It comes up with both touch pads, and a revolving drum way of listing the extensive set of menu items. A selection of these can be copied to one's personalised menu. There's even mini-guides available on how to do certain things.
I'd still like more buttons for quicker, less menu driven control though, but that would probably triple the weight and quadruple the cost for little benefit in image quality.
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