On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Scott Loveless<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 1:47 PM, John Sessoms<[email protected]> wrote: >> No viewfinder, unless you purchase an accessory viewfinder to mount on the >> hot shoe, in which case you can't mount a flash. > > That's the deal-killer for me. I think I'd like to have a little > point-and-shoot sized camera that doesn't suck. But having to spend > even more money just so I can look through an eye piece is ridiculous. > And, chances are, that viewfinder probably only works with one lens > (I could be wrong, but that's pretty common). > > Call me a Luddite or curmudgeon or jack-ass or whatever, but it sure > would be nice if the folks who made our cameras would make a model or > two that didn't include a bunch of fluff, like facial recognition (I'm > pretty good with that myself) and video. Instead, this is > revolutionary, they could put some functional _parts_ in the camera, > like a real viewfinder that doesn't resemble a mile-long tunnel of > distortion. > > -- > Scott Loveless
The VF is included if you get the kit with the 17. Otherwise it's $100 (MUCH cheaper than similar VF's for rangefinder gear, which start around $170 and go up to at least twice that). Basically you get a choice between a really good LCD-only camera with a zoom, or a very retro prime-based P&S, complete with hotshoe finder. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
