There's a straight-on view from behind the camera at dpreview. That means the relative size of the flash shoe and the CF door are pretty much as shown. It looks a little too small for CF.
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 04:44:09PM -0500, Paul Stenquist wrote: > We don't know that they didn't. If you eliminate the eject button, the > pictured door may well be wide enough for a CF card. Trying to > determine the size of the door based on the size of the flash shoe is > impossible. We don't know what lens the camera was shot with, so the > perspective relationship is unknown. > Paul > On Feb 26, 2006, at 3:49 PM, Joseph Tainter wrote: > > >I'll be a little dissapointed if the thing won't take CF cards, but > >lets face it, SD cards are better on several levels, and Pentax has > >only released one camera that takes CF, vs. several that take SD, so > >it woildn't be too surprising if they have dropped CF usage. > > > >William Robb > > > >---------- > > > >Bill, don't you feel that Pentax has shafted those of us who bought > >the D (and subsequently bought CF cards)? > > > >They should have designed it to take both types. > > > >Joe > >
