On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 06:32:51AM +0200, Thibouille scripsit: [snip] > If this is no new DSLR than I really dunno what it is. Seems more > compact than previous bodies :)
It's a mockup finish tester; its a block of wood that lets them abuse body coatings at minimum cost, to see what sweats off first. It's a sales tool; it looks kinda like a camera body, but its sole actual function is to be locked to a lens -- really locked, need a key to detach the lens -- and a table via a cable. There's a pentaprism and a fixed mirror and that's it. It looks vaguely like the camera they were thinking about marketing in 1997, but never did. It's not a DSLR; it's EVIL. The different viewfinder beak and angle is because the flash and the electronic viewfinder fight for space, and some clever person decided to use the flash at very low power as the viewfinder back light. It's an X70 sensor and electronics; all they've done is modify the body slightly to stick a KAF4 mount on it. (KAF4 -- like KAF3 only the camera won't work if it doesn't find power zoom/SDM contacts on the lens.) What looks like the front e-dial is really the focus. It IS a DSLR; a 19MP APS-C DSLR with an effective ISO range from 50 to 6400 and the very best colour fidelity yet made. It will only be sold in Japan, and no English language firmware exists. It's a DSLR, all right, but one with a 6cmx4cm fixed sensor; effective pixel count is 5MP. Purely electronic shake reduction, based on where the image happens to be on the huge sensor. MSRP somewhere around 5 KUSD. No ISO setting below 800. I mean, come on -- use your imagination! Whoever took that very blurry picture sure did. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
