Panasonic Lumix Camera Review

It is literally weird to me, a pro of over 25 years and a workshop tutor, to see habitancy aiming their cameras with their arms outstretched rather than with the camera pressed close to their faces.

How can habitancy holding their cameras like that maybe hope to regain a sharp picture? What happened to holding the camera as steady as possible? The reply of procedure lies in the most recent technology.

With the introduction of image stabilisation into cameras a few years ago some tantalizing spark at the manufacturers came up with the idea that it wasn't important to have camera viewfinders any more. The technology would strict the fuzzy image resulting from camera shake produced by holding the camera at arms length. Genius! Or is it?

Of course, producing cameras without the supplementary price of incorporating a viewfinder is also somewhat less high-priced for the makers and so costs are down and profits are up. Sceptic? Me!?

It has all the time been definite to me and many other serious photographers that camera manufacturers care exiguous about 'photography' but care more about selling cameras to habitancy who know nothing about photography and probably don't want to. All these millions of consumers want is to be able to do is record their activities, no matter how poor the resulting photograph is, without having to learn new skills.

The serious photographer store is much smaller than the mass consumer one and all the time suffers as a corollary of 'innovation' (read 'nail in the coffin') in the consumer market. How long will it be I wonder until the important camera viewfinder is removed from serious Dslr cameras to be substituted by the 'hold the camera at arms length while the image stabilisation tries to strict this basic mistake' technology. Once this happens we might see a new breed of camera; gone will be the Dslr to be substituted by the Albp model (Arms length Blurry Photo).

The reality is, and this is very sad to have to say, camera manufacturers rely upon the lack of knowledge and skill of the consumer market. Knowing that the median consumer knows virtually nothing about photography allows the manufacturers to be arrogant enough to dictate the features incorporated into their cameras rather than provide those features the end users literally need. Innovation or simply cost cutting? You decide.