Originally posted by FozzFoster Agreed - but there are also themes and features carried forward that were deemed excellent starting from even before the K-7 lineup.
Compactness has been a theme for cameras since the dawn of cameras.
Absolutely - I'm not even mad that the screen is fixed since I wasn't going to buy the camera regardless. The fixed screen is something that could be seen like a step back* since it only "gains" a couple mm and 0.2" of screen size, but ultimately it's what it is. The camera will just have to stand on everything else. And I think, from what we've seen, that it will.
*I don't think a whole lot of people decided not to buy a tilty-screen camera
because it had a tilty screen. The opposite is... probably more frequent. Then again, I'm also fairly certain that for a large percentage neither fixed nor movable is a hard requirement.
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Originally posted by Gray The new optical viewfinder must be extraordinary to trade a few millimetres for usefulness. I wear glasses, shoot with my right eye and so have never found nose on LCD to be a problem personally. But Pentax obviously wants the photographer to be immersed as possible in their new viewfinder, without distraction or physical inconvience. I really hope they succeed. I've just ordered a second spare KP battery.
The extra clearance comes into play to use the thumb as AF joystick on the touchscreen. Although, considering that with glasses AND the
substantial extra clearance of the ME-53 I still smush myself (left eye to OVF here) against the LCD, I think the viscoelasticity of the human face is far more important than the clearance