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?


On 12/14/2012 12:28 AM, Anthony Farr wrote:
Answering my own message because I'm addressing a raft of issues from
various correspondents in this thread and reaching back through the
life of the K-01.  I don't want to single out anyone, it's a
collective thang.

A Google image search for  "toilet suite" will find a lot of square
and rectangular toilets.  I've been seeing them (and using them) for
years now, if people got out more they'd be less amazed by the
concept.  Or was it an opportunity to infer that Marc Newson is a
shithouse designer because he designed a toilet?  In fact he designed
an entire bathroom range, it'd be a serious omission if a toilet suite
wasn't a part of it.

I think the attitude to the K-01 is one of "Get your stinking paws off
Pentax, you damn dirty foreign designer".  How many times does it need
to be said that the form factor and the feature list of the K-01 were
Pentax's decisions, not Marc Newson's.  Once again, the form factor
and the feature list of the K-01 were Pentax's decisions, not Marc
Newson's.  For the hard of hearing I'll repeat it, the form factor and
the feature list of the K-01 were Pentax's decisions, not Marc
Newson's.  And for the visually impaired,   T H E   F O R M   F A C T
O R   A N D   T H E   F E A T U R E   L I S T   O F   T H E   K - 0 1
  W E R E   P E N T A X ' S   D E C I S I O N S ,   N O T   M A R C   N
E W S O N ' S  .

Is the K-01 any squarer than an LX?  You'd think it was a cinderblock
from the gripes I've read.  For the record it's 22.5mm narrower,
11.5mm shorter, 8mm thicker and 4g lighter than a gripless LX.  And
the LX was praised for it's feel in the hand.  And, by the way, the
next time anyone complains of the K-01's thickness, consider that it
will do screwdriver AF with any K-AF lens since Pentax made AF lenses.
  An mount adapter won't give that, the body needed screwdriver AF to
ensure backwards AF compatibility.  A short mount would only have been
AF-adaptable to SDM lenses, and AFAIK no-one has ever produced a mount
adapter with an integrated AF motor.

If Pentax had taken the short mount plus adapter route we'd still be
hearing the squealing and whining and moaning today, even from people
who wouldn't buy a K-01 anyway.

There's the rub, the biggest complaints appear to be coming from
people who were the most unlikely to ever buy one.  OTOH I've read
some reports from people who bought a K-01 and seem to be OK with
their choice.

Over the years I've observed that single-lens-reflex purists are the
most uncompromising group of photographers around, with respect to
their acceptance of any other type of viewfinder (or no viewfinder).
For them I suggest a future PUG theme, "No Viewfinders Allowed - A
Gallery of From-the-Hip and Overhead Shooting".  I'd also suggest that
enough is enough, we know how you feel about optical frame 'finders
and wire frame 'finders and live-view-on-the LCD 'finders and no
'finders.  Just don't buy them and see if I care.

Finally, pardon my grumpiness.  I have prostate cancer, and last week
underwent a brachytherapy implant after a year of hormone blockers.  I
still hurt (a cough or sneeze is unbearable), have no endurance, scant
tolerance, and I have to carry a sieve and a lead container everywhere
in case a radioactive pellet gets loose when I pee.  Have a nice day.

regards, Anthony



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Don't lose heart, they might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a 
lengthly search.


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