All good points, Peter, no disagreement here. Personally it was a letdown to see the camera hit the shelves without an EVF option, but there it is. I'm not going to get all twisted up about it after the event. Pentax (or any brand) will sell what they want to sell, and if it doesn't suit me it really doesn't matter. There will be other cameras, there always is.
Who does Pentax think they are? I suspect that Pentax sees itself as a style leader and a mold breaker. Didn't they once have a motto like "Pentax is enough" or something to that effect, suggesting that they had the good sense to stop piling on features for features' sake. Sometimes I get more pleasure from using a stripped down camera than a specced up one. In that respect I "get" Pentax. Thanks for your thoughts. regards, Anthony On 14 December 2012 17:19, P. J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: > Anthony let me start out by saying I'm sorry to hear about your health > issue. > > Now I started this thread, and let me say my problem with Newson being hired > as a designer has nothing to do with his external package per se, but with > the fact that Pentax thought that it meant that they could simply repackage > a K-30 DSLR, without the SLR portion, if they just made it a collectors item > instead of an actual new product. Maybe if they had invested some of his > fee into actually having a camera designer and electronics engineer do a > repackaging they could have put a decent EVF into roughly the same location > that Sony has on their Nex 7, (and Nex 6) cameras. It looks to me as if > there would be plenty of room there given a proper review of current design. > I never said that the K-01 was too big in any dimension, in fact I compared > the K-01 to another mirrorless camera from Panasonic which was released > about same time which is actually larger the K-01 and pointed out that no > one has complained about it's size, at least that I know of. I don't mind so > much that the camera looks like a camera envisioned by the manufacture of > LEGOs just that it cost so much to do it for so little return. As I said > repeatedly in my original post. Pentax cheeped out, (and I thought that I > strongly implied), and tried to make up for it with style. Who do they > think they are to get away with that Hasselblad or Leica? > > > -- 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.
