>>4299737Not him but are you even using your brain? Do YOU know what you're talking about? The standard (D)SLR controls are still directly accessible exposure controls, but to change modes you move the PASM dial one or two clicks instead of spinning your larp dials all the way to whatever its called for auto (A? C?).
What larp dials are is controls that can't be one-handed.
The controls on the old OM SLRs can be mostly one handed, like a modern SLR, but you have to move a hand and reframe to change between auto/manual and adjust exposure compensation.
On the "standard" SLR layout, this is even worse, you have to walk your hands around the camera for every control except for aperture and focus. On some cameras the wind lever blocks the shutter speed. This wasn't a photographer-first decision, for some it was branding first (Leica sell shitty camera for lots of money, LEICA CHANGE NOTHING!) for others it was just the same soulless bean counter shit we have today: Designing it any other way would consume more time, energy, and materials during production and factory service and therefore cost the company money. At least some leica models made the shutter speed index-finger accessible. That was nice!
And then as soon as we ditched clockwork shutters everything was front/back dials - on film. It's better.
The PASM dial's placement is also an ergonomic failure, mode dials are, the modes should be changed like ISO/EC, index finger button hold and control wheel movement, or a third dial ala sony EC. But hey, these cameras are designed by corporate japan. They do not innovate. They do not design things well. Their standard for beautiful and usable is this. The PASM dial was created by the technological limitations of the late 20th century and because we are buying from corporate japan, we're stuck with them for a long long time anyways. As a subculture, corporate japan is aesthetically incompetent and anti-human. Use a sony vaio and then an iphone - it aint happenin.
