Originally posted by jon.partsch To me, based on this, EVIL would not be a good direction for Pentax to pursue.
I doubt (and hope I am right) an EVIL announcement at Pho'kina.
Couldn't agree more. There's already plenty of these things in or coming to market, and there's little point in Pentax jumping in after everyone else. Particularly when adapters will allow Pentax lenses to be used on all the others anyway, which strips the primary reason for anyone to buy the Pentax version in favor of another brand's version, in contrast to SLRs.
Originally posted by Art Vandelay II This subject has been beaten to death on here. I started an EVIL thread myself 2 years ago saying Pentax should build an EVIL because I thought then, just like I do now, that EVIL's will engulf all but the high end of the DSLR market. Only difference now is Panasonic, Olympus, and Sony are starting to show that prediction was sound (at least in Japan). It's a shame Pentax has the foresight of your average Opossum.
As far as the comment about manual focus with an EVF...nothing could be further from the truth. It is ridiculously easy to manual focus with a 7x magnification view through an EVF. In fact for me it's even easier than using 1970's/1980's era manual focus SLR's. You really can be extremely precise.
I wouldn't want to stick my eye within a few mm of an EVF with any frequency or for any period of time - talk about eye strain! Using a 7X magnification view to attain focus also doesn't work too well for anything that isn't holding still for you, since composition (and therefore, focus) changes constantly with moving subjects. Use of the rear screen in bright sunlight is fruitless as well. If it has an APS-C sensor and/or if you're using dSLR lenses on it, you're basically mounting lenses that resemble a soup can onto a camera that resembles a pack of cigarettes, PLUS you have to separate them with a chunky adapter due to the K-mount register distance, not exactly an eloquent package. Please don't bother providing me with contrary examples (i.e., the inevitable "pancake prime" example), as such situations are not exactly the norm nor are such lenses going to provide much variety of tools if you confine your collection to such lenses. These EVIL things (pun intended) are a fad and will not significantly displace dSLRs, particularly for "enthusiasts."