Originally posted by Kharan they just don't have as much room for additional buttons, which would be much ameliorated by a touchscreen.
On the contrary, it is the touchscreen advocates who are making up utility that isn't real.
Which useful external controls does the
K-3 actually lack compared to the (40% higher List Price) 7D Mk II?
Or would you add touch technology to the mid-range camera such as your
K-30 and leave the flagship alone, as I have suggested?
As I have written, on a tripod, shooting in LiveView, touch focus and other LCD controls are useful. On a MILC (perpertual LiveView camera, if you will), touch controls are useful.
Of course, tethering a dSLR without touchscreen to a tablet is even MORE useful since you actually have some screen real estate to work with when it is actually useful to have it. You want touch tech? How about that?
While holding a camera up to my eye, such as when actually looking through a viewfinder (OVF or EVF) a touch control LCD has NO VALUE WHATSOEVER.
So for a traditional OVF / Mirror dSLR, what possible productive benefit can be reailzed from touch LCD technology? Actually, nothing that can't be done just as well with the 4-Way. OK, maybe the ONE TIME I enter personalization such as copyright information - oh, wait - I could do that on a tablet while it is tethered.
Well then . . . . .