Originally posted by nanok with my d50, i quickly noticed that the af assist lamp is so intruding when it might be of any use that i just disabled it (and forgot about it altogether). other nikon owners confirmed they find it just as pointless (and downright embarassing at times). i am not sure of how much use an af assist lamp is in practice.
the lines on that k7 look promissing (if that's truly what it is), can't wait to see the rest. hopefuly, we have another beautyfull camera coming out form pentax.
That's also what I did on all the cameras I ever bought that had a "bright" AF assist lamps. Only the red ones were acceptable (but had a short efficiency distance), the other ones are really incredibly annoying when shooting people.
Difficult to say how many people craving for an AF assist lamp have actually used a camera with this feature and realized how inefficient it is.
Maybe it has something to do with the myth that Nikon cameras have good low-light AF because of their assist lamp... the only problem being that they also have good low-light AF without it.