Brian Walters wrote: >That's pretty much how I feel about the K-01. > >The looks don't particularly bother me - in fact, it looks better in >real life that in photos - and if it had come with a viewfinder, I >probably would have owned one by now.
Same here. I was almost tempted to buy one with the recent price reductions, but the lack of viewfinder was a deal-killer at any price. The thing is, we're all a bunch of old fogies here ;-) Seriously, there a lot of young people who have no interest in having a proper viewfinder at all - one K-01 review I read said one of the *best* things about it was that it had no viewfinder! I've had some students who own DSLRs and have never looked through the viewfinder: they shoot exclusively with live view. Baffling to me but it's probably the wave of the future (at least until they get old enough to need reading glasses!) But what killed the K-01 for them was the price, at least the price when the camera first became available. That's probably the bottom line (literally): The K-01 was too expensive for the "I hate viewfinders" young people who would have liked it. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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.
