On 2/2/2012 1:56 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Feb 2, 2012, at 10:42 AM, steve harley wrote:
i read the press release and watch the linked video interview
<http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/02/02/Pentax_K-01_announcement#press>
alas the hype about visual aspects of the design and the reputation of the
designer is front and center, a huge mistake in my view
the interview with Mark Newson is helpful because as he handles the camera i got a better
impression of it; the camera looks fairly usable within the constraints of "no
viewfinder" and "not small" — those constraints are challenging and i wish more had
been made of them; there is more sense of the handling in this video:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-lSQlvqFKs>
He said something very interesting in the video, a detail that has been overlooked in
every comment I've read so far, but when you get down to it almost the only thing that
matters: "It should out perform the K-5".
By what criteria, since it appears to be the guts of a K-5 in a shell
without an eye level viewfinder, then in some cases yes in some no.
Otherwise I doubt it will show any differences if both are clamped to
sturdy tripods and the K-5 is used in live view mode. Maybe the K-01
will have a faster frame rate not constrained by the flipping of the
mirror, but that hardly qualifies as the only measure of performance.
Really, are you going to look at the camera? Or look at the pictures you take
with the camera?
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Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a
lengthily search.
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