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Well, even with the silly red mark, I pick
the D70 as the best looking of the current crop
of DSLRs. It's prism housing makes it look
rakish, it has the angles of a stealth fighter
and it's body texture makes it look
more expensive than it is. It has a serious look,
less soft than it's competition. And, if someone thinks
the look of the camera doesn't matter, read what Tiffin
wrote about it's "glimmer glass" filters where they tried
to say the shimmering look of the filter make models "feel
better."
The Canons, 20D and Rebel XT are a bit too smooth,
a little too rounded. Kind of like a Japanese sedan.
They don't have the rugged, more costly look of the Nikons,
even thought the 20D isn't flimsely constructed.
The big Nikons and Canons are a bit to hulking to be
called attractive. Same thing with the Fuji S3.
Anything with a big battery grip is out of the running.
The Kodaks aren't bad. The new one has a more traditional
looking prism housing.
The Olympus E-300? It looks like an SLR with a brush cut.
Compactness does count for something though. The pricier
E-1 is a nice looking camera. It is well-proportioned and
it was nice to see Olympus tried to keep something revolutionary
in style around (a nod to the daring E10 and E20s which at least
attempted to prevent SLRs from returning or retaining the "flat faced"
look they've always had).
The Konica-Minolta 7D is an interesting looking DSLR. It's controls
are large, two big horizontal wheels on either side of a traditional
looking SLR shape. The texturing on the gripping surfaces also helps.
The spatter-paint on the housing top also helps, but the overhanging
top housing is kind of Nikon FMish.
The Sigma SD9 is a plain-looing DSLR, very business-like and it costs
like it. It's got the same overhanging brow as the Minolta and a very
cluttered back which must make it "egonomically-challenged" when in
use.
Pentax's istDS is a kind of looks "hybrid." It's got smooth lines,
but they terminate at sharp angles, so it's a combination Nikon-Canon
look, but IMO, the Nikon looks better. It's also got two large
control knobs on either side of the top, like the Minolta. Overall,
it looks pretty good.
Sony is the oddball company here. They have at least five cameras
with more than 7 million pixels and no DSLR!
Well, even with the silly red mark, I pick
the D70 as the best looking of the current crop
of DSLRs. It's prism housing makes it look
rakish, it has the angles of a stealth fighter
and it's body texture makes it look
more expensive than it is. It has a serious look,
less soft than it's competition. And, if someone thinks
the look of the camera doesn't matter, read what Tiffin
wrote about it's "glimmer glass" filters where they tried
to say the shimmering look of the filter make models "feel
better."
The Canons, 20D and Rebel XT are a bit too smooth,
a little too rounded. Kind of like a Japanese sedan.
They don't have the rugged, more costly look of the Nikons,
even thought the 20D isn't flimsely constructed.
The big Nikons and Canons are a bit to hulking to be
called attractive. Same thing with the Fuji S3.
Anything with a big battery grip is out of the running.
The Kodaks aren't bad. The new one has a more traditional
looking prism housing.
The Olympus E-300? It looks like an SLR with a brush cut.
Compactness does count for something though. The pricier
E-1 is a nice looking camera. It is well-proportioned and
it was nice to see Olympus tried to keep something revolutionary
in style around (a nod to the daring E10 and E20s which at least
attempted to prevent SLRs from returning or retaining the "flat faced"
look they've always had).
The Konica-Minolta 7D is an interesting looking DSLR. It's controls
are large, two big horizontal wheels on either side of a traditional
looking SLR shape. The texturing on the gripping surfaces also helps.
The spatter-paint on the housing top also helps, but the overhanging
top housing is kind of Nikon FMish.
The Sigma SD9 is a plain-looing DSLR, very business-like and it costs
like it. It's got the same overhanging brow as the Minolta and a very
cluttered back which must make it "egonomically-challenged" when in
use.
Pentax's istDS is a kind of looks "hybrid." It's got smooth lines,
but they terminate at sharp angles, so it's a combination Nikon-Canon
look, but IMO, the Nikon looks better. It's also got two large
control knobs on either side of the top, like the Minolta. Overall,
it looks pretty good.
Sony is the oddball company here. They have at least five cameras
with more than 7 million pixels and no DSLR!
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