Originally posted by reh321 I'm sorry you feel that way. I like the K-1 design, and love the KP variation. I dont see anything "unnecessary" ... anything I would want to get rid of.
And I am sorry, that PENTAX lost its ways and others picked it up...
I mean c'mon, be honest to yourself...
the moonlander display... useful only in 4-8% of all shooting situations.
the wheels... distracting
AND redundant functionality...
the crippled shoulder display... it felt like a much better when switching off main-lcd on a K-5IIs or K-3 when the shoulder-display used to give me more information...
still choosing the AF-point via 4-way element....
whilst some have plead for a thumbstick long before the K-1 arrived!
I mean the K-1 as a camera is OK, but all this is more bearable then desirable...
But hey, what do I cry for, people anyway are not capable of reading manuals anymore it seems...
They even wonder why their main-screen goes black and cry in fear of havin a bad camera, instead of pressing the info button again
(they most certainly pressed accidently before a few times, whilst looking through the viewfinder, when they wanted to change the AF-POINT via that 4-way controller)
I mean really... on what planet is it actually practical or necessary... to:
1st: press a button above the 4-way controller
(thats otherwise useless somehow...- who changes card schemes whilst shooting?)
2nd: choose the AF-area/point
3rd: again press that darn button above the 4way to get back original functionality of the 4way
(
!!whilst other just press and move around a little thumbstick!!-
this 4way plus button method is actually as impractical as can get.)
BUT:
having 2 more wheels to:
make settings that can be reached in a breeze via holding a button and turning an e-dial(that was always there at the reach of your thumb)
---> exposure correction... for instance... just hold that darn exp.corr.button on top and turn the rear e-dial...
why in gods name should it make sense to turn a wheel 2 times until it reached the desired position and then turn another wheel?
THE EXACT SAME IS IT with SETTING THE ISO...
Bracketing?HDR? -->top button of the 4way...
I know, that others already got burnt for asking for logic in PENTAX body design and coming back to the essential design guidelines of the K-5 series...
But i really feel we need to get back to the roots of our success instead of celebrating all the bells&whistles facade on the K-1...
again it is a good camera, but RTFM and 1st take up a K-5IIs... feel it... use it...
then....
take up a K-1 -- and realize what you feel when using it.
And I mean
using it and
not playing around with its wheels... or whirring it through the air holding it on its display with the moonlander out...i mean really using it.
The K-5 IMHO handles 100% better because there is nothing on it distractin you from taking photos and every button on its body makes sense exactly where it is... its nearly 100% perfectly designed.
despite the lever above the 4-way is pointing to the left instead of to the right, what would have been much better FMPOV.
admitted it also has no thumbstick... but at that time with that less AF-points... i didnt even care.
and reh... this is really no offense, but my honest oppinion that comes from using a K-1
may I ask...do you actually use or better: own a K-1 body? and for what do you use it?