They Just Don't Get It

In The Doghouse. Valparaiso, Chile. Feb, 2015
If one is in the business of designing cameras, then it should be safe to assume that there are at least a few people within the company's design group that actually understand the needs of photographers. Regrettably this appears not to be the case.
As someone that has been using and reviewing cameras since well before the digital era, and also as a reviewer who has used almost every brand of digital camera system on the market, if not every model, let me point out some of the areas where manufacturers let us down.
No Live Highlight Warning
One of the great advantages of Live View is that it shows the image as it is being seen by the sensor. This means that the camera has the capability of displaying which areas of the image are going to be overexposed, or "blown" – as we photographers colloquially call it.
Many companies have therefore implemented some form of live highlight alert. It is often in the form of blinking and sometimes in the f...