Originally posted by bobandirus Dear Pentax,
If you put the internals of the Ricoh GR into a super-A sized body, I'd buy it in a heartbeat, if I could afford it. It'd just need weather resistance, in body anti shake, and a split prism. I'd happily lose in body auto focus. Call the mount KAF-3, and use it in compact bodies. I'd even be very happy for the body to grow a mm in each direction to gain weather sealing. Olympus managed weather resistance in the OM-D. You could even use micro-sd cards to save some space.
Pentax managed this in the diminutive LX.
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Originally posted by WPRESTO 1. Just get rid of any cover over the cable release socket;
2. Better: put on a metal release button with a threaded socket for a traditional mechanical cable release - how difficult or expensive can this be????
3. On the base, add a little hole for a video pin to prevent twisting with either quick release plates or tripod heads that have this little, simple, cheap, sensible, extremely effective feature. Why on earth was this not standard decades ago?? AND DO NOT SAY IT TAKES UP TOO MUCH ROOM, the excuse given during the film age (...it would interfere with the film winding mechanism... HA!).
4. An articulated or at least tilting screen, and don't tell me it would make the camera too bulky which is not the Pentax "style."
Ageree, on cable release, and was startled there was none when I bought my K-01,
my silky smooth minolta short mechanical cable release, and my 3 footer became obsolete (in the digital world) overnight.
As for the articulating screen, I think it would be prone to breakage, the same reason pro 35mm (D)SLR,s never had on board flashes. Just a guess, why they may never do it.
Last edited by valarie; 03-09-2014 at 08:43 AM.