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[Taka Mizutani]

As Huw illustrated so eloquently, intuitive interface is very important with
any sophisticated
piece of equipment.

The Nikon D50 has a ton of functions buried in the menus- makes it very
difficult to access stuff quickly, especially if you need to change a
setting quickly so as to be able to get a shot off that won't work in the
current setting. It works just fine if you use it like a point-and-shoot in
full program mode as such.

The D200 is much more intuitive- all of the important controls have discrete
buttons, switches or knobs, makes it much much more usable. I didn't have to
read the manual to access the vast majority of the controls.

This is basically the same analogy as it is for something like the C5
chassis A6- all controls are logically laid out (except the nav), easy to
access and use. The C6 chassis A6 is overly complex- all of the controls
consolidated into a couple knobs makes it a requirement to go through a
bunch of menus to change settings.

The radio tuning, the seat heater controls, air directional controls are all
buried in menus.

Taka

On 9/18/06, Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:
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>
> Yeah, manuals are great at 60 mph.  Or you could memorize it all in case
> you'll need it.  I have a digital camera that in some ways is not very
> intuituive - the Manual modes involve lotsof menus and choices.  But,
> you can pick it up, turn it on to Auto, and point and shoot.  The things
> that matter have their own buttons.  I would not want using a new car to
> have as steep a learning curve as this camera does on its features.
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