On Oct 8, 2013, at 6:21 AM, George Sinos <[email protected]> wrote: > Hard to argue with what Hogan said. I'd much rather travel with my > K-7 and a couple of small lenses than try to haul a full frame body > with FX lenses. The difference in size and weight is significant.
For sure. New Pentax and Olympus top of the line cameras ... Both well spec'ed. Both compact. Both have a suitably comprehensive lens line. Both with their own plusses and minuses. I'm in the Olympus camp for various reasons, and I've ordered the new Olympus. Handled it recently, looking forward to its arrival. I was curious about the sizing difference between these two remarkable cameras, so I went to camerasize.com. I put this page together as I thought you might be interested: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25268645/pocomparo/index.html The Olympus gets its slim proportions through the lack of reflex mirror box, pentaprism, built-in flash, etc. The sensors are pretty similar in size although different in proportion (13x17.3 vs 16x24). Micro-FourThirds lenses are quite compact as well, although that depends on focal length and speed to some degree, as well as on the lens mount requirements. What struck me more than the size differences is the difference in number of buttons and such. Ricoh concentrated on lots of discrete function buttons, where Olympus made a big use of the 2x2 control system (the little lever on the back above your thumb flips button functions from an A set to a B set). It will be interesting to see how they play out in use. :-) G -- 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.
