On 2015-10-14 7:34 , Darren Addy wrote:
I think that the ONE thing that Hoya/Pentax could have done to make
the K-01 more attractive in the marketplace would have been if it had
come with an articulating LCD (which would have been the first on a
Pentax. If it were like the LCD on a video camera it would have been
able to flip for selfies and it would have been useful on the ground
or held high overhead (like for shooting/composing over crowds). That
would have extended its functionality in situations where a prism
finder is useless (and since it lacked one of those one would expect
it to justify its existence in the product line in some functional
ways).
the simplicity was intended as part of the design statement, i think
a camera can become popular without an articulating screen (phones don't
have them, and Apple is the most used camera brand by some measures); but
Pentax's gamble, for whatever reason, came up short on that side as well —
they couldn't beat the smaller ILC's (many with EVFs and articulating
screens), and they couldn't beat the phones … a disrupted market creates losers
come to think of it i would buy a phone that was significantly thicker &
heavier to get a better camera plus a few physical camera controls
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