Originally posted by Fontan I just find it weird that the FF flagship of Pentax has an articulated screen but K-new the APS-C “flagship” does not appear to. It was at least at one time a philosophy that Ricoh prescribed to but for some reasons abandoned for this camera. I guess they really want you to peak into that OVF.
If you think about the roles those cameras are playing, it's not weird at all: the K-1 is a landscape machine, offering excellent image quality for deliberate shots (being quite a slow camera), while the K-new will offer speed.
What I'm saying is that an articulated screen was much more important for the K-1.
Originally posted by Fontan I also find it weird that those want the moveable screen get crucified. I don’t remember forum members crucifying K-1 for having it. Is K-1 a superb camera despite having an articulated screen?
I suppose this is really about OVF vs Live view, latter being blasphemy. The most ironic is that the end products the pictures will not be able to tell you if one used OVF or LV/EVF.
I just find it silly.
That is completely untrue - a strawman. The problem is either insisting that the K-new - as presented - has an articulated screen in a very well disguised form (why disguised???), or that the K-new would absolutely flop because it's screen is fixed and its other features aren't good enough to compensate for such a glaring fault
But, obviously, not wanting an articulating screen per se.
P.S. I believe a large part of the screen-complainers would not buy the K-new even if it had an articulated screen. This, IMO, is just like the Ricoh inscription on the K-3: an excuse.
Oh, and on the other forum the top complainer is a guy who's constantly blaming the K-new for not being a FF mirrorless with class leading eye tracking, selfie-type articulated screen, CFExpress card slot made by Canon