Originally posted by 6BQ5 Thumbstick? No way. I want voice control.
I'm going to name my camera Marlene.
"Marlene, please focus on the young lad with the leather brief in his left hand."
zzzzttt-zztt <Pentax AF confirmation pause> schnick-schnakt
And I want to be able to do this while holding a shot of Whisky in my hand.
Typically ... yeah...
SURE ...like a thumbstick for choosing the AF-point would be some kind of futuristic STAR TREK technology... *doublefacepalm*
I am sure you when you buy a new car, the first thing you do is take out the servo steering mechanism.
but hey, everybody to his likings... Originally posted by reh321 This is not true.
A K-3 is like my K-30 - the top of the prism housing is essentially flat.
The S1 is like the K-1, the K-3ii, and the KP - the prism housing is the bottom half of a four-sided pyramid - all three resemble SLR cameras of thirty years ago.
The S1 has no design elements from the K-3, but like the modern Pentax cameras designed just before it, seems to have borrowed from SLR cameras of the 1970-89 period.
Man... it seems you dont get the idea... this isnt about the prism housing... this is about the handling of our cameras
BTW: evolution is not 100% optical mimickry...
(though the K-1 feels very far away from what once was a calm and FBD-Design in a K-5IIs)
The PENTAX flagships (until the K-1 came up)...
used to be very straight.(K-3 also had some straightness in it, though it already looked a bit corrupted)
straighter silhoutte, Not too much buttons... reasonably sized shoulder display so you can switch off main-lcd. - only buttons and wheels that make sense AND all the buttons on the right places....
no somehow you are right...
the K-3 already corrupted the guideline the K-7 introduced (which was very efficient and succesfully continued on to the K-5II bodies.)
nonetheless the PANASONIC S1R still seems to me more of an EVOLUTION out of PENTAX DSLR than out of any Panasonic from a design point of view. just show me one lumix camer thats designed like that.
Look at all the Panasonic bodies before... though somehow "almost there" they had the same bloated feeling and curvy design, I already didnt like on Nikon or Canon DSLRs .... most of them had a 2nd useless wheel on the left of the finder with wich you would have set the shutter mode...
Panys always had the "PASM"-Mode dial on the right side of the finder,
whilst on PENTAXs flagships it that "mode wheel" always sat on the left(for a very good reason)
and up until now, they always thought it would be a great idea to have an additionall wheel on top for choosing the shutter mode(that for some reason always sat on the right. and took away space for an info display.
anyhow, it looks like what i would have loved to be a pentax FF DSLR body design...
somehow perfect.
... the only thing i would miss on a DSLR designed like that, would be a tilted right shoulder so you can read the
info-OLED(or LCD) that sits there much easier...
BTW: When Apple can sue Samsung for stealing their design... Ricoh-Imaging should sue PANASONIC for stealing their design...