A large portion of the size difference between a DSLR and a SLR is the
thickness of the body needed for the rear LCD screen. If they were to
make it thinner the camera would need a shorter register distance,
(compromising K mount compatibility), or removing the rear screen
altogether, something I don't see happening. Pentax already has three
different lens mount systems in production and can't keep up with new
lenses for any except the Q and I consider the two toy lenses and the
fisheye to be serious compromises to have more than two lenses ready for
the cameras release date. Add a fourth lens mount into the mix and one
of the other three would have to go. Due to this hard fact, I expect
that any full frame EVIL camera from Pentax would be just as thick as
any of the K bodies to keep the K mount, and only smaller in the
vertical dimension due to the lack of prism, even if in body IS was
sacrificed.
On 12/18/2011 3:50 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote:
An EVF would be critical on a higher end system like this. I don't
think it has to be thinner but it does have to be smaller and lighter.
Given the size of lenses for an FF sensor it will never be pocketable
in an sense, but could easily be smaller than one of the C/N FF DSLRs.
This could be a good idea if they do it well.
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Dario Bonazza
<[email protected]> wrote:
John Sessoms wrote:
Would this be a camera with an electronic viewfinder you can put your eye
up to or one of those where you have to hold it out at arms length to look
at the little TV screen on the back?
Who knows? I'm only afraid that Pentax is going to show silly things for the
pure sake of making them different. They already embraced that route, and
Ricoh is keen on that scheme too. Fingers crossed...
Dario
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