On 17/04/2009, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: frank theriault
>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:19 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> > The *ist-D DOES have a front e-dial.
>>> >
>>> > But that's not an *ist-D, the front of the pop-up flash doesn't project
>>> > out
>>> > far enough. Same for the K-10D.
>>> >
>>> > This camera has almost no projection over the lens, and there's a
>>> > distinct
>>> > down angle to the edge of the pop-up flash where both the *ist-D and
>>> > the
>>> > K-10D go almost straight back. The profile of the pop-up flash is
>>> > unlike any
>>> > of the earlier model slrs I'm aware of.
>>> >
>>> > The pop-up flash looks like the one on the X70, but there's a body join
>>> > along the front that the X70 doesn't have, and this is obviously an
>>> > SLR.
>>> > Still, the X70 flash also protrudes farther over the lens than the one
>>> > pictured.
>>> >
>>> > Plus, the X70 does NOT have the front e-dial, which this does.
>>> >
>>> > Doesn't look anything like either the MZ-D prototype, the K1D
>>> > prototype, the
>>> > K3D prototype or any of the 645D prototypes I can find on the web. It's
>>> > not
>>> > a PZ-1P either.
>>
>> Maybe it's not a Pentax at all.
>>
>> Maybe someone is having fun photoshoping blurry letters on a body from
>> another manufacturer?
>
> I considered that possibility, but couldn't find anything I thought was
> a good candidate. Do you know another manufacturer who uses that front
> e-dial and shutter button configuration?

Nikon.

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