DuaneB:
Interesting, I guess that lots of buttons and modes come of well in magazine comparisons where as a professional uses a more selective criteria to judge a camera.Its still all marketting, probably the same insides in a lot of them ?
Duane B
I am by no means a professional photographer, but I did learn on equipment that was designed for professionals... after all the older cameras were made for professionals who were the only ones (mostly) buying them at the time. Which is why I suspect I learned to appreciate the differences a good camera UI could bring to the party. I suspect that if you offered the typical camera consumer a choice between the prosumer UI and the consumer UI for the same price, most would select the consumer UI since it is the most familiar to them (the same gestalt is used in lots of electronics).
However, I will say that the manufacturers appear to put their latest and greatest technology inside their highest end cameras first. After that it appears that it depends upon whichever (prosumer vs consumer) are next in line for production as to which gets the upgrades first. In my case, those latest upgrades appeared in the consumer version since the prosumer version was at least another year before it was upgraded (the 50d)...