{"id":1545,"date":"2008-03-19T10:57:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T13:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=2443"},"modified":"2010-05-08T16:51:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T19:51:12","slug":"galloping-obsolescense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/19\/galloping-obsolescense\/","title":{"rendered":"Galloping obsolescense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, last August I switched over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/reviews\/specs\/Panasonic\/panasonic_dmcfx100.asp\">Lumix FX100<\/a> &#8211; great camera, if a bit noisy in the high-ISO shots. Then a few weeks ago the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/reviews\/specs\/Panasonic\/panasonic_dmcfx35.asp\">Lumix FX35<\/a> came out, with a wider lens angle and 30fps HD video, so I ordered one on the day it became available and found a buyer for the FX100.<\/p>\n<p>Now, while the FX35 is still in transit, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/news\/0803\/08031802panasonicfx500.asp\">Lumix FX500<\/a> is announced, with a better lens and larger LCD. Argh. In a couple of years I suppose we&#8217;ll have to just rent the <em>camera du jour<\/em> for a few days while a better one is shipping&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Then again, the FX500 won&#8217;t fit into the old, battered cellphone case I always walk around with, so I shouldn&#8217;t be too upset. Also, they haven&#8217;t yet implemented my ideal features; namely, an option for RAW storage, manual speed\/aperture selection <em>(correction: it does have that!)<\/em>, a way to override autofocusing, and a remote shutter release (for doing shake-free tripod shots).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, last August I switched over to the Lumix FX100 &#8211; great camera, if a bit noisy in the high-ISO shots. Then a few weeks ago the Lumix FX35 came out, with a wider lens angle and 30fps HD video, so I ordered one on the day it became available and found a buyer for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-oV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}