Originally posted by patarok i want a weather resistant Q and a dive case por favor.
that is why i really do not feel in need for a flippy screen.
wr is essential. recently i had a talk with a samsung nx buyer and he said he isnt very happy with his decision.
Because when u go on vacation, what u would need, will be a splash and dust-proof ilc...
My view is that the strength of the Q-family is that it can be stretched into different niches depending on what you add to it (that is essentially how it differs from something like a bridge camera, which has limited extendability).
(1) the main benefit from a tilting screen may come in street photography, where looking down at your camera reduces the sense of your taking aim at your target. A Q starts off with an advantage because it doesn't look much like a serious camera, and so a tilting screen would build on that advantage
(2) Pentax has a lot of experience in making cameras weather-resistant, so I expect expanding that group to include the Q family would not require an enormous amount of engineering effort, and would extend its utility in each of the areas where the Q is already used.
(3) It has been six months since I last handled a Canon SX-50 bridge camera. Translating the lens specs from their usual "35mm equivalent" to actual values tells me that the actual focal length of the SX-50 lens is approximately 4.3mm-210mm, but when fully extended, that lens is not nearly as long as the 210mm lens I acquired for one of my 35mm cameras; thus I figure that a Q-mount 100mm-300mm, or even 150mm-450mm, lens would be much more compact than the adapted lenses that many of us are hanging a Q on (however, if I ran Pentax, I'd seriously doubt that sales of a lens like that would ever meet development costs).