{"id":1669,"date":"2009-02-23T13:31:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T11:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ylovephoto.com\/en\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2009-02-22T13:32:18","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T11:32:18","slug":"first-touchscreen-slr-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/2009\/02\/23\/first-touchscreen-slr-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"First touchscreen SLR camera?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you think about this? There are already several point-and-shoot compact cameras using LCD touchscreens for all or part of the user interface. But, to this day, none of the major SLR camera manufacturers did try this on a them while it would be relatively easy to push this into a design budget for an expensive camera like SLRs. Nothing at Nikon, nothing at Canon, nothing at Sony, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Who will be the first to bring this innovation? And I really think it is inevitable that it will come soon on our reflex cameras. Even if only because it reduces the number of needed buttons and it brings a certain flavor of technical progress that should appeal to most of the camera enthusiasts buying SLR cameras (just think about the unrelenting success of video modes which should -as a matter of fact- only be considered as anecdotal on a photo camera).<\/p>\n<p>I think that it&#8217;s possible to list the best candidates for this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Low- to mid-range camera at Sony, like a Sony Alpha 400<\/li>\n<li>Entry-level camera at Nikon, like a Nikon D65<\/li>\n<li>Lowest price cameras at Samsung and Pentax, Pentax K3000, Samsung GX-3000 (and maybe even a mid-range option for these brands are striving to distinguish themselves technically from the market leaders)<\/li>\n<li>A complement to Panasonic DMC-G1 under the name of DMC-G2 or DMC-G3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is all mere observation of technolody presence among the compact models (such point-and-shoot cameras like the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T77, the Nikon S60 Coolpix, the Samsung NV34HD or the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX580). And there is more reality to these remarks than to most predictions about the launch of presumed major products at the next PMA fair in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you think about this? There are already several point-and-shoot compact cameras using LCD touchscreens for all or part of the user interface. But, to this day, none of the major SLR camera manufacturers did try this on a them while it would be relatively easy to push this into a design budget for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,25,76,52,67,75,74],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nikon-d65","category-panasonic","category-pentax-k3000","category-pentax-k30d","category-samsung-gx-30","category-samsung-gx-3000","category-sony-alpha-400","tag-touchscreen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}