On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 03:02:56PM -0400, Zos Xavius wrote: > 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.
I'm afraid that is just too cool to be true. > > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
