Quoting Mark C <[email protected]>:
I'm actually pretty impressed by the commercial. Aside from the fact
that I would be wearing sweat pants and a the "She's with stupid" T
shirt my wife got me for my birthday, I can relate to the dude in
the video.
But seriously - the brassing thing is totally contrived and Pentax
trivializes themselves by emphasizing that. Yeah, my 6x7 and LX have
brassing but they are over 30 and 20 years old respectively. It is
silly to contemplate using a digital camera that old, but maybe
hipsters in 2043 will be doing lomography with K-5's and M-X's....
2-d flat field photos will be all the retro craze.
But - it is an appealing camera if you are looking for a point and
shoot that is pocketable. But with a coat like that, the guy in the
commercial could have easily carried a Q10 and a couple of lenses.
Apart from the brassing issue, I agree it's an appealing camera (do
people, other than reviewers, *really* want their cameras to look like
crap?). But it has one serious omission. Why would they produce this
without a hotshoe - even a basic one? I'm pretty sure most of their
competitors have that feature.
I recently went shopping for a quality compact camera, mainly for use
by my wife during an upcoming trip, but I wanted something that I
would be happy with as well. I looked at the MX-1 when it was
announced but lack of a hotshoe killed it for me. I eventually went
for a Lumix LX-5.
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Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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