Another GFM report: Playing with the Pentax K-01

2012-06-07 Thread John Sessoms
From: Mark Roberts Our insider from Pentax brought a Pentax K-01 to Grandfather Mountain last weekend and a few of us got to play with it for a while. My impressions fall into two categories: 1 - I'm now certain that I have no interest at all in a camera without a viewfinder 2 - For those who

Re: Another GFM report: Playing with the Pentax K-01

2012-06-07 Thread Bruce Walker
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:20 PM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: From: Mark Roberts Our insider from Pentax brought a Pentax K-01 to Grandfather Mountain last weekend and a few of us got to play with it for a while. [...] It is a sturdy feeling camera, but I am just physically

Re: Another GFM report: Playing with the Pentax K-01

2012-06-07 Thread Larry Colen
On Jun 7, 2012, at 9:20 AM, John Sessoms wrote: In short, the lack of viewfinder is a deal-killer for me (as I expected) but for those to whom this isn't the case it's a lot of camera for the money. It appears to be pretty much what I thought the evolution of dslr video is/was leading

Another GFM report: Playing with the Pentax K-01

2012-06-06 Thread Mark Roberts
Our insider from Pentax brought a Pentax K-01 to Grandfather Mountain last weekend and a few of us got to play with it for a while. My impressions fall into two categories: 1 - I'm now certain that I have no interest at all in a camera without a viewfinder 2 - For those who don't mind (or prefer)