P. J. Alling wrote: But it doesn't have a small form factor.
It's small in all the ways to make it /look/ smaller. But it's footprint is pretty much the same as a K-5. The people repeating the hype of that it's ultra compact seem to be those who've no actual experience with the Pentax APS-C flagships since the K-7. Even the K-3 is essentially the same size. Ricoh has made the right shoulder of the camera smaller by shaving off some of the top plate, and giving it a smaller battery so that they could have interchangeable plastic grips, but if you compare the cameras here <http://camerasize.com/compare/#706,372> the K-5 takes up /less/ actual space in all dimensions. True the K-P weighs a bit less, but not enough that you'd actually notice. It will probably feel smaller in your hand, but not necessarily in a good way. I've never had used a K-3 but the K-5 has about the best grip I've ever had on a camera. I've heard it said that the K-3 is even better. Now that I think about it the K-S1 was pretty much an exercise in design which satisfied no one, aimed at a market segment they had fundamentally no understanding of. The same team looked at the criticism of that design and actually took it to heart. However now they've gone too far in the other direction aiming at a different market segment they also have no fundamental understanding of. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ You win PJ; I only own one (so what do I know) and have use several hundred's shots on it? It's a really great camera in the Pentax tradition. Malcolm And that end my contribution to the KP comments here. -- 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.
