I think that sums it up pretty well. They didn't even really try. The K-01 was just another me too product that was thrown together as cheaply and with as little investment as possible.
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 12:10 PM, P.J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually it's a downgraded K-30 which was a related but different beast than > the K-5. The downfall of the K-01 was it's cheapness, they reused as much > of the hardware from the K-r, and some of the electronics from the upcoming > K-30 with a smaller buffer, or maybe the same buffer size as the K-r with > the rest of the K-30 image train. It doesn't matter, really. Hoya built a > mirrorless camera as cheaply as possible using off the shelf components then > hired Nuwson to put lipstick on the pig. Unfortunately it was still > obviously a pig. There was really enough space in the K-01 camera body to > put an EVF in upper left corner looking at the camera from the back, but > that would have required actually designing a new steel frame rather than > simply using the frame from the K-r and lopping off the prism. That's not > to say it's a bad camera, it's actually a pretty good camera by all > accounts. However it's control layout was awkward, and it's price at > introduction was quite high for its feature set, most likely to pay for the > lipstick. > > On 9/6/2014 10:56 AM, Bill wrote: >> >> On 05/09/2014 7:34 PM, Zos Xavius wrote: >>> >>> The K-01 was rightfully laughed at by photographers while at the same >>> time was praised in other circles and even won a design award. >> >> >> The K-01 was/is a capable enough camera. Inside, it's just a somewhat >> downgraded K-5 with the viewfinder stripped off. Probably, it is very >> similar in capability to the K30 that was released a few months later. >> It will be interesting to see what Newson comes up with for Apple. I do >> fear for things like the Iphone, iPad, etc becoming ergonomic nightmares in >> the name of styling at Newsons hands. I don't suppose it will make a lot of >> difference to the typical Apple user, they will be told it is new and >> wonderful and they will dutifully buy the stuff. >> I'm sure Apple could put a touch screen on a cat turd and Apple users >> would hold their noses and buy it. >> >> bill >> >> > > > -- > I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve > immortality through not dying. > -- Woody Allen > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
