On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:14:41AM -0300, Luiz Felipe scripsit: > EVF with a mirror camera? Lose the pentaprism and keep the mirror? > Lose the prism and mirror but keep the camera otherwise the same??
Keep the direct optical path to the viewfinder; lose the moving mirror and shutter. Ideally, this and the robustness deal gets the LCD off the back of the camera -- big flat fragile space that it is -- and replaced with a HUD-style overlay in the viewfinder. The back can then support larger/more controls. (Using the K20D 4-direction rocker dial with gloves? Ick.) However, the main thing is to get the electro-mechanical stuff out of the optical path. > The moment I think of EVF I also think of a mirror-less camera, with a > distance from lens mount to sensor as reduced as possible, with new > lenses to exploit the advantages AND a very good adapter to the former > lens format of the brand. AND a side adapter for all major lens mounts, > even if I'd sell it under a very different brand. That's what the Samsung NK is supposed to do. I get the feeling that's not where Pentax wants to go. Straight EVIL does two things Pentax wouldn't like; it starts to use the lens aperture mechanism as the shutter, which means you lose lens backward compatibility, and it almost completely de-values optical design in the camera. Pentax is still primarily, nigh-obsessively, an optical company. They want to keep competing inside their area of speciality if they possibly can. > Since it's fairly close to usual dimensions, I expect a camera with > some evolution. No revolution is expected here - sorry. I'm not expecting a revolution either, but, Hoya needs one, and Mike Johnson deferred his camera #2 recommendation today; "This is awkward, but I'm going to have to hold off with #2 until about this time next month. Still collecting data. What can I say—this slot was solid ten days ago, but the world changes." You know of any other plausibly-better-than-"A mid-level 4/3 or APS-C DSLR of the brand of your choice" -- which is recommendation #3 -- that's going to be announced in a month? I'm certainly not as well-plugged into the rumour mill as I could be. Mike certainly gets the lenses early. He's had a K20D on long-term loan for almost a year now. So it's not impossible he's got enough insider info on the successor camera to decide to hold on on recommendation #2. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
