On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 01:25:30PM -0400, Graydon wrote: > > Note that Panasonic is a consumer electronics company; Pentax (and Hoya) > are optical companies. They don't want to wander out of the area of > their strengths into those of the competition, which is what moving to > an EVF would do.
I think the driving factor behind moving to an EVF (apart from cost) is the requirement for HD video - that's going to be a must-have item. Personally I don't care, but I know that I'm not the target customer. The capability is already showing up in consumer cameras, although as yet it isn't always fully integrated (no auto-focus adjustments, say). But once you have live view and 60fps video, you've already got an EVF. If that means venturing into the strengths of Panasonic, so be it; the alternative is to be left on the sidelines. And, in any case, there's still a lot of space in front of the sensor for an optics company to showcase their capabilities. -- 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.
