A hump rumor.... "Originally posted by moray-eel-bite Okay, so before the reality dampens the rampant speculation:
The hump is a wifi receiver and sending unit. This is needed, because the LCD screen is removable and usable as a remote with full depth-of field preview as well as focus peaking. This allows birders and astro-photographers to leave the rig set up and take pictures from afar... a gimbal mount controllable tripod will be announced simultaneously. This way you don't need to be near the rig to take pictures. It also feeds into the 'selfie' obsession where you can see exactly how the picture will look in real time before taking it (since real outdoors people (the pentax niche) are often on their own in the wilderness. Also, they've rammed a GPS tracking unit as well as a superior flash unit in there... just for good measure. Cheers, Read more at: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-news-rumors/238387-another-new-image-k-3-a-11.html#ixzz2gUyVuWSY"; On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 2:51 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/1/2013 2:32 PM, CollinB wrote: >>> >>> - Lump under the K-3 logo. >>> My first inclination is to assume this has something to do with the >>> mechanism that flips the mirror up and down, such as a stronger motor >>> to make it move faster. I really don't know what it is, though. I >>> don't think I've ever seen anything like it on a camera before. >> >> Yak shaving: Might just be a thumb rest. > > > If you're holding the camera with a pancake lens, as if it were a P&S and > letting it auto focus, (lets admit we've all done it), the lump looks to be > positioned just right to be very uncomfortable. I guess that's one way to > encourage proper camera handling. > > > -- > A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the > crazy, crazier. > > - H.L.Mencken > > > -- > 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.
