Originally posted by Serkevan I don't want a touchscreen on a DSLR, period . First thing I'd do would probably be to turn it off.
I'd do the same, but the trouble is that once a manufacturer of any gadget goes to touchscreens they start deleting buttons and other controls because it is cheaper to do them in software via the touchscreen. Eventually you won't be able to do much without the touchscreen.
In fact, fashion is now tending to move
away from touchscreens. In a car forum I use, people complain bitterly about having to go down through touchscreen menus to control the heater for example, whereas on my older car I can reach for and turn a knob without even looking at it. Pentax cameras are doing well with their use of dials, and retro-style Fujis with emphasis on dials are selling well. Camera touchscreens are also geared to taking photos at arms length using LV, and do not fit with viewfinder use when the only thing that can touch the screen is your nose.
If a tilting screen makes the body 3mm thicker, so what? I don't get this obsession with thinness. Like phone/laptops/tablets/TVs, I predict that mirrorless cameras will get thinner and thinner as time goes on. So far they have only deleted the mirror box but I predict in ten years time the Socanikon crowd will be drooling over the latest 3mm thick camera bodies, like tablets with huge lenses on them. Of course, another new lens mount standard (or two) will be needed in the meantime. The Socanikon mirrorless salesmen must be wetting themselves with glee, knowing that they have manouvered their users to the foot of another "upgrade" escalator, whereas they were running out of things to say about mirror DSLRs.