On 12/15/2012 7:37 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: Mark Roberts
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.
Would it be possible for Ricoh-Pentax to offer an auxiliary electronic
viewfinder that would mount on the hotshoe?
They would have had to design it for one to start with. If there was to
be a K-02 that might have made the feature cut, or maybe not. With
Pentax you never know.
I still think that the most hopeful place to see a future mirrorless K
mount is a module for the Ricoh GXR, it wouldn't need a built in screw
drive auto focus motor to be viable, and while there's been some
speculation that you couldn't fit a drive motor into such a module micro
motor drives can be made to fit a lot o places. Powering it would
probably be a bigger problem than packaging.
Sure it would be bulky, on the other hand have you seen the Alpha lens
adapters for the Sony Nex series?
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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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