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12-15-2016, 10:23 PM   #241
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Mmm it is a totally different system indeed but may I remind some of you that Tamron DOES have MF design although quite old.

Does Bronica brings any souvenir?
If you are of the school of thought that mirrorless requires a short(er) registration distance, then regardless of the age of any MF film lenses (except perhaps for those for the Fuji and Bronica rangefinders) you're still going to require adapters for most of them. If not, then any Pentax MF mirrorless could stick with the 645 lenses. There is something to be said for the square box format, when it comes to handling a MF camera, especially if you have a light weight body, as mirrorless might give us, and a hefty lens attached to it.


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The only thing that K-01 lacked IMO was an EVF because LV wasn't great for outdoor shooting especially in sunny weather. I'd love to see a metal finish version of the K1 without mirror, without tilt screen and pentaprism replaced by EVF, for shooting with primes. The K1 body itself isn't that large, it's usually the lenses that make it large.C'mon Ricoh, make a vintage K1 with EVF and a bunch of metal finish optically stunning primes.
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Most of the MILCs don't have an EVF, yet they're received differently.
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Really? I think it's awful.
Well Sigma's gone past were heavily criticized for being useless, itty-bitty buffers, atrocious high ISO ....I think TCS described ISO 400 as having the quality of newsprint. Along comes the much larger, more purposeful looking quattro, looking like the equivalent of an AR15 for the camera world .......But, it is once again another flop, with horrendously poor performance. A high tech digital camera should look like a piece of modern machinery, and not like a fashion accessory .......IMO. It should look like something from Star Wars.

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Dude, face facts the Marc Newson design was disgusting.
You are calling something totally subjective a fact. That makes you an idiot in my book.
Dude, I'd buy a K-01 for the right price. In fact I nearly bought one ........but its an ugly camera that I have been interested to buy. I have a little Fujifilm camera, its a plastic little box with zero style. They can wrap those little Fuji's in black, White, Blue, Tan and Red leather and they still look stupid ...... IMO ......but I own one.

To say that a camera is ugly does not make a person an idiot, and nor is it subjective. If attractiveness is subjective, then why do Master Chefs heavily pursue the aesthetic when they present food on a plate. Aesthetics is not a subjective matter, it is an innate component of the human psyche.

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Ah, so they thought olde gold is still gold and the rest is history. In that case the answer is clear. No need for Marc Newson and Jony Ive to design a new mirrorless generation. Call for Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble I suspect that the soooo smooth, rather over-designed work of Newson and Ive puts off as many people as it attracts so a more "rugged" take by Flinstone & Rubble Designers Inc. might well appeal anyway.
Marc Newson underdesigned the camera ......he is a minimalist in terms of his design. Most people would prefer MORE buttons and dials for functionality purposes. Given, there is such a thing as too many buttons and dials.

My Fuji one could say, could have been the product of Fred Flintstone or Barney Rubble.........if they got their hands on a plastic injection moulding machine (very tacky and rough faux leather in a plastic finish).

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QuoteOriginally posted by zoolander Quote
To say that a camera is ugly does not make a person an idiot, and nor is it subjective. If attractiveness is subjective, then why do Master Chefs heavily pursue the aesthetic when they present food on a plate. Aesthetics is not a subjective matter, it is an innate component of the human psyche.
Beauty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

TL;DR attractiveness/aesthetics is subjective and objective depending on philosophical standpoint.

I like the camera, I don't think it's ugly.

In the same way that my father considers the actress Meghan Markle to be ugly, I find her quite attractive.
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QuoteOriginally posted by zoolander Quote
To say that a camera is ugly does not make a person an idiot, and nor is it subjective. If attractiveness is subjective, then why do Master Chefs heavily pursue the aesthetic when they present food on a plate. Aesthetics is not a subjective matter, it is an innate component of the human psyche.
It is subjective. And I said calling something ugly as a fact is idiotic. Ugliness is always subjective. I don't find the K-01 ugly, I find it nifty. I don't really care about food aesthetics either. It's another mans hobby. So what master chef finds beautiful I find a tiny scrap of food, where is the rest of it? Let's go to a real restaurant next time and get more food for less dough and no hassle. The Sigma Quattro SD looks like a Franksteincamera to me. A box with a tube stuck on stapled to a grip. A Viewfinder stuck somewhere on top without really caring were.
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QuoteOriginally posted by Vylen Quote
Beauty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

TL;DR attractiveness/aesthetics is subjective and objective depending on philosophical standpoint.

I like the camera, I don't think it's ugly.

In the same way that my father considers the actress Meghan Markle to be ugly, I find her quite attractive.
Well assuming that your father is a royalist, I'd say his dislike for Meghan is based on a political standpoint because she is an American and not British. She is clearly attractive. He would probably prefer that Prince Harry hook up with some British blue blood rather than being with a half white (Dutch and Irish) and African American woman.

The 5 Laws of Attraction | Laws of Attraction

Attraction in psychology stems partly from biology. I am a male, and I like cars which have curves that are reminiscent to the shape of a woman's body. When cameras are curvey they might appeal to the male psyche because they have attributes of a woman's body. However, males also like masculine designs of steel like what we see with machine guns ....they generally do not have any feminine elements. They are machines designed to kill and are attractive to some of the base instincts of the male psyche.

These retro designed cameras seem to appeal to males because they have that polished metal look wrapped with leather - or the skin of an animal - and that appeals to the basic male psyche. For females, they might be attracted to the retro camera because it has become fashionable, and that certain "era's" in style are important to the female psyche. Younger men might be attracted to the retro-look cameras because they are into fashion, and these are the characters whom are labelled hipsters ........young men who try to be fashionable first, putting form ahead of function. So the young male hipster bases his attraction to a camera based on social reasoning, so's he is accepted within his social group, rather than relying on his basic sexual instincts.

This leaves the K-01 in the art deco style which probably appeals to a more androgynous psyche ......... Smooth straight lines, and curves that are neither feminine nor masculine.

Looking at my K-3, it looks like a male camera, its metal, its tough, its angular and curvey at the same time - it looks tough. Looking at a Porsche 993 GT2 it looks like a hot woman with sexy sumptuous lines, hips and almost having breasts - but it still looks tough. The K-01 is neither here nor there, and thats why it did not appeal to the broader heterosexual audience. But the people who do use it really like it as a camera.

Attraction is not subjective, it is largely biological, and then also needs to be socially acceptable. Social psychology has identified this long ago.

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QuoteOriginally posted by zoolander Quote
Well assuming that your father is a royalist, I'd say his dislike for Meghan is based on a political standpoint because she is an American and not British. She is clearly attractive. He would probably prefer that Prince Harry hook up with some British blue blood rather than being with a half white (Dutch and Irish) and African American woman.
Nope, cause my father wasn't born here and couldn't give two-hoots about the monarchy or republican movement.

But that's a different topic altogether.

It doesn't matter if you want to play around with semantics or go into psychology/biology instead of philosophy, your opinion or unattractiveness to an inanimate object can differ from others and so calling the design disgusting and labelling it a fact is not the right approach.
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QuoteOriginally posted by D1N0 Quote
It is subjective. And I said calling something ugly as a fact is idiotic. Ugliness is always subjective. I don't find the K-01 ugly, I find it nifty. I don't really care about food aesthetics either. It's another mans hobby. So what master chef finds beautiful I find a tiny scrap of food, where is the rest of it? Let's go to a real restaurant next time and get more food for less dough and no hassle. The Sigma Quattro SD looks like a Franksteincamera to me. A box with a tube stuck on stapled to a grip. A Viewfinder stuck somewhere on top without really caring were.
Well next when you're at Mcdonald's looking at the menu, you'll notice how the pictures present the food in all its glorious perfectness. Yet when you open up your grease covered box Big Mac, you find its flopped over with ingredients misaligned, and it doesn't look nowhere near as appetizing as the one on the menu board.

Like I said, attractiveness is not subjective, it is biological and social. Social psychology identified this long ago. read my previous comment.

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It doesn't matter if you want to play around with semantics or go into psychology/biology instead of philosophy, your opinion or unattractiveness to an inanimate object can differ from others and so calling the design disgusting and labelling it a fact is not the right approach.
I'm sorry, when did philosophy beat the SCIENCE of Social Psychology ........... when did this happen ? Maybe I was off flying around the galaxy in my galactic space ship shooting aliens, and people back on earth started putting philosophy ahead of the sciences ! Industrial Design is a science at the engineering department in University champ ! And not at the philosophy department !
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QuoteOriginally posted by zoolander Quote
I'm sorry, when did philosophy beat the SCIENCE of Social Psychology ........... when did this happen ? Maybe I was off flying around the galaxy in my galactic space ship shooting aliens, and people back on earth started putting philosophy ahead of the sciences ! Industrial Design is a science at the engineering department in University champ ! And not at the philosophy department !
Hey champ, you're talking to an engineer, who happens to be posting on a forum about the art of photography. Thank about that.
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QuoteOriginally posted by zoolander Quote
Well next when you're at Mcdonald's looking at the menu, you'll notice how the pictures present the food in all its glorious perfectness. Yet when you open up your grease covered box Big Mac, you find its flopped over with ingredients misaligned, and it doesn't look nowhere near as appetizing as the one on the menu board.

Like I said, attractiveness is not subjective, it is biological and social. Social psychology identified this long ago. read my previous comment.
Social psychology is not hard science. it is very subjective and easily manipulated in accordance with ones views. Just because there is a convergence on what the general public finds beautiful doesn't mean it is an objective fact. It is a culturally determined perception. So if a camera doesn't look like other cameras people view it as ugly because it doesn't live up to their expectations what a camera should look like. Not objective at all but prejudice.
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QuoteOriginally posted by Vylen Quote
Hey champ, you're talking to an engineer, who happens to be posting on a forum about the art of photography. Thank about that.
Yes yes everybody is an "engineer" on Pentax forums. I will "Thank" about it for zero seconds ...... chuckling !
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Yes yes everybody is an "engineer" on Pentax forums. I will "Thank" about it for zero seconds ...... chuckling !
UNSW graduate with a Bachelors of Engineering, First Class Honours... quite proud of it really.

Regardless, we are arguing over a single statement you made
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Dude, face facts the Marc Newson design was disgusting.
That's definitely something to think about.
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QuoteOriginally posted by D1N0 Quote
Social psychology is not hard science. it is very subjective and easily manipulated in accordance with ones views. Just because there is a convergence on what the general public finds beautiful doesn't mean it is an objective fact. It is a culturally determined perception. So if a camera doesn't look like other cameras people view it as ugly because it doesn't live up to their expectations what a camera should look like. Not objective at all but prejudice.
Yes yes Social Psychology is just hocus-pocus and based on prejudice .......yeah good one ! Yeah they use the scientific method, and use experiments with repeatable outcomes etc etc Yeah there's nothing "sciencey" to it, its all based on opinion and prejudice ! How much beer and liquor are we drinking tonight ?
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QuoteOriginally posted by zoolander Quote
Yes yes Social Psychology is just hocus-pocus and based on prejudice .......yeah good one ! Yeah they use the scientific method, and use experiments with repeatable outcomes etc etc Yeah there's nothing "sciencey" to it, its all based on opinion and prejudice ! How much beer and liquor are we drinking tonight ?
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