The Sony is the third best selling camera on Amazon. It's done really well as far as I know. Lots of enthusiasts are buying a serious P&S to compliment they DSLR system. I know I get tired of toting the K7 and lens around Disneyworld, etc. That's why I got the X10.
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Jeffery Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Not to stray OT, but 43 seems extinct (with the future apparently entirely > m43 for Olympus). I have an m43 Panasonic, and don't like it even with the > optional EVF. The new Sony 20mp no-VF Rollei-35 killer isn't catching the > world by storm. Who are the enthusiasts who love a high-end camera the size > of a pack of Camels? Is the dSLR market driven entirely by Facebook posters? > Won't their iPhone cameras suffice? > > Not to vent here, but I'm thinking that I'd better pick up an Olympus E-5 > simply because I'm already invested in fourthirds. And it makes me appreciate > more that Pentax will continue to make cameras that can be held with 6-8 > fingers rather than just 4. > > Jeffery > > Sent from my iPad > > Jeffery L. Smith > New Orleans, Louisiana > USA > > On Aug 14, 2012, at 20:39, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:17 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> From: Bruce Walker >>> >>>> http://www.minimallyminimal.com/2012/8/12/pentax-si.html >>> >>> >>> Still no eye-level viewfinder. Not for the bi-focal impaired, shaky hands >>> generation. >> >> I love the description that Kirk Tuck uses for the way you have to use >> rear-screen-only cameras: the dirty diaper hold. >> >> It's entirely possible that cameras that the far-sighted, shaky-hands >> set can use might effectively disappear. Look what's happened with >> phones: there isn't one on the market that I can use without glasses. >> They are all designed by people with excellent vision, so they don't >> give a flying fuck whether far-sighted folks can use them. I've >> learned to use my SLR pretty much by feel, and the viewfinder with >> diopter adjustment makes that possible. I don't use my iPod or cell >> phone unless I absolutely have to; I've learned to detest cellphones. >> >> The trending seems to be toward P&S's being folded into cell phones >> and mirrorless designs replacing everything else. SLRs would gravitate >> upward into the rarified, ultra-pricey Pro market along with medium >> format digital back types of kit. Probably talking $3000 bodies and up >> only. >> >> Where would that leave us? Screwed. Maybe EVFs with diopters will save >> the day. Remains to be seen. >> >> -- >> -bmw >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
