The K-01 was rightfully laughed at by photographers while at the same time was praised in other circles and even won a design award.
"First and foremost I should speak about the design. Marc Newson has done an astounding job with shape and feeling of the K-01. You may have seen photos of the camera online with it’s bright yellow exterior. I opted for a white version, wanting to stand out from the crowd, but not necessarily glowing. The lines of the camera are extremely clean and simple. The body is made of machined aluminum which gives the whole thing an extreme feeling of sturdiness, much like the back of your iPad. It’s accented with a ridged rubber which helps you keep a firm grip on the camera. There’s nothing unnecessary on the K-01, just the bare minimum. I’m also happy to report that there’s no viewfinder on the K-01. It’s a digital camera with a 3″ LCD screen, why on earth would it need one? The camera also does a good job of hiding all of the ports under the rubber grip on the side of the camera, giving it an extremely unified feeling." http://www.thefoxisblack.com/2012/04/09/pentax-k-01-the-best-and-coolest-camera-ive-ever-used/ On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:01 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > Marc is one of the most influential designers of his generation, So > influential that he managed to kill an entire line of Pentax products before > it was effectively born. A lot of manufactures copy if not the actual > product, the zeitgeist of Apple products, pretty much every smart phone > looks like a iPhone, Even Leica cameras have been favorably compared to > iPhones. I wonder if there are now going to be Apple iProducts that look > like K-01 cameras and will they get favorable reviews because Apple makes > them. > > On 9/5/2014 7:42 PM, steve harley wrote: >> >> not exactly a stellar move IMO — his work with Pentax was not a pinnacle >> of functional design; but as has been noted, he may have been highly >> constrained in that project; i'm non-plused as well by what i've seen of his >> other work >> >> >> <http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/09/marc-newson-apple-jony-ive> >> > > > -- > I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve > immortality through not dying. > -- Woody Allen > > > > -- > 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.
