Marcio Watanabe wrote:
>
> Sean Golden wrote:
>
> >It doesn't help. "Operationally obvious" is simply a trite way of
> >saying "something I'm familiar with." All you are saying is you prefer
> >a camera that works in ways with which you are familiar. The N70 is
> >completely "operationally obvious" to me, and to many other people. So
> >it's different. That doesn't mean it's more complicated, it is simply
> >different.
>
> As somebody who has studied human-computer interaction and has done
> some tests on this subject, I have to disagree. You're
> oversimplifying things. There is such a thing as an easier interface
> and a more complicated interface. Just because you can get used to
> one or the other does not mean that they are just "different."
>
> Marcio

No, Marcio, you're wrong. Sometimes it DOES mean they are "just
different." Sometimes not, but sometimes so. In this case particularly
the N70 gets an unfair bad rap. The major bone of contention in the N70
user interface is that you have to do two steps to do one thing. That
is not always true. Exposure compensation in aperture priority and
manual mode is done PRECISELY the same way as in the cameras that are
used to demonstrate a superior user interface. One thumb-click of one
dial on the back of the camera. The N70 takes a few more steps in other
modes, but so do other cameras. I will agree that the N70 has SOME user
interface quirks, but so does every other camera I've seen.

As somebody who has "studied human-computer interaction" and has
written, published commercially, and deployed to major corporations over
a hundred computer programs, I think my qualifications, at least, equal
yours in this regard.

-sdg