Shel wrote:
> I like my cameras to be simple,
> pleasing to my senses with a classic look and feel. I've yet to see a
> digital camera that looks and feels like an LX, Spotmatic, or a Leica.
But that's simply implementation. Most film cameras don't look and feel like
an LX, a Spotmatic, or a Leica, either.
And you probably haven't tried an Olympus E-10 (E-20 replacement now
announced). For build quality, hand-feel, and ergonomics, that one doesn't
give much away to anything.
I've got an Optio 330 coming. The build quality is reported to be very high,
despite its miniscule size. I'll report on it when I've tried it.
In any event, it won't be long before Pentax has a very good note-taking,
carry-all-the-time compact camera (did you know the Optio 330 has an alarm
clock built in, because it's meant to be a "travel-all" camera for business
people?), and an all-new, from-the-ground-up digital SLR that takes K mount
lenses (the digital SLR won't be based on the MZ-S...it's the other way
around; the MZ-S is based on the digital SLR. The film version just came out
first, is all. I have no doubt that the R&D project that resulted in the
MZ-S was undertaken for the sake of providing the company with its first
digital SLR). So Pentax will soon have the "p/s" and the serious SLR digital
markets covered. Future product introductions can be expected to start
filling in the digital line from there.
--Mike
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