Originally posted by sunshine7913 I bought the Pentax Me Super SE version yesterday and it really looks awesome to me.
btw Why pentax does not make mirroless camera with Pentax film camera style?
Like Olympus, Fuji-film, Sony(sort of), and etc.
It would be awesome if they make mirroless camera with film camera style.
The examples you mention are indeed mirrorless.
But I'm curious if your question is more about the looks of the camera, rather than whether it is mirrorless or not?
Probably stating the obvious, but the ME Super is not mirrorless. And its lens flange to film plane distance is the same as on all current Pentax DSLRs.
So maybe just a retro design, with a smaller grip (or no grip at all) would work.
The modern DSLR body is a little thicker than film bodies, to allow for SR mechanisms behind the sensor. I don't think anyone would want to give that up categorically, but it would be nice if that were thinner. I think most of the perception of size is due to the grip (and IMO, a large grip is a good thing).
Personally I think the claimed advantages of mirrorless cameras have nothing to do with the mirrorless aspect per se, rather it is the addition of some other things like EVFs which some people like. And the perception of a slightly smaller body, which is mostly driven by the fact that most mirrorless cameras use smaller sensors to begin with, and hence have smaller lenses -- but that is not because they are mirrorless.