The ergonomics were obviously worse than the K-7/5/3 just looking at
it. The shutter button placement looks awkward. The front dial
placement looks awkward.
The body has been made shorter without actually changing the real
footprint of the camera. I love the ascetic of the more pointed
pentaprism on older film cameras, but the Super Programesque, LX, (with
hot shoe), like pentaprism of the K-7/5/3 looks better on the thicker
body required by stuffing all the electronics into a camera.
The small grip, which is all you ever see in promotional shots, reminds
me of the grip on the *ist-D which didn't seem really uncomfortable
until I held a Ds.
I never even thought of the rear dial placement, but you know with a
*ist-D grip your thumb would fall on the secondary rear dial, which is
where the *ist-D had it's dial, and all of the grips have that *ist-D look.
I still have a *ist-D, it's got enough problems, after I beat on it for
a while, that it wasn't worth selling, so it sits on a shelf all
forlorn, and it really is uncomfortable compared to holding a K-5.
I expected the high ISO to be not much better than the K-3 because
physics, and I expected movie mode to be not any better because Pentax.
I expected battery life to be an issue.
The things I erected to be better were. But there isn't much that's
actually better.
It's like the bad old days of the *ist-D[x] endless variations on a
theme, with no real improvement. In fact if you owned a Ds/L all you
needed was a firmware upgrade and you got 90% or more of the
improvements that the Ds/L II, (just a bigger rear screen really),
version gave you and the only real difference between a Ds and a DL was
the pentamirror in the latter. Except now we have an advanced camera,
that "looks" like it might be a replacement for the K-3 in the Pentax
product line but isn't.
Maybe they did a rush job to try and take advantage of the success of
the K-1 by putting most of a K-70 into a K-1 like body with a few
improvements. It wouldn't be the first time.
On 3/10/2017 1:49 PM, Darren Addy wrote:
Not sure what your biases are, but I think these guys do pretty good reviews.
I knew nothing about the K-P before seeing this. Very odd to hear that
ergonomics is such a problem with this camera, when that has been one
of Pentax's strong suits, in the past. Good news for any future Pentax
cameras are the improved stabilization system and AF.
It is going to be a long while before I upgrade from my K-3 II, even
when an option is available. It is more than enough camera for my
purposes on terra firma.
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 12:34 PM, P. J. Alling
<webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote:
Which reinforces all my biases so I'm posting a link to it here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjSNou9cQq0
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