Originally posted by MikePerham I wonder if he considered taking the K-7 out with a limited instead of the Leica or Pany micro 4/3 camera for his street shooting; a whole new paradigm for Mr. Reichmann, but not for many who are familure with the brand and own some limiteds. !
I am sorry, but I think that the Panasonic+ lens is way smaller than the K-7. You are formulating the question backwards. Why should he take the K-7+limiteds when he can take the Leica/Panasonic/Olympus with lenses in a smaller package?
Weathersealing is oversold with Pentax. Olympus E-3, Nikon D300 and Canon 7D also have it in one way or another and it is enough for most of the real-life conditions. The only way Pentax excels is when you associate several characteristics and from a Marketing stand point it is a problem that pentax has. Pentax cant say, we have the smaller interchangeable lens camera. Nor can say we have the only weathersealed camera of the market. Nor can say we have the higher resolution camera. Nor the better high-ISO camera. Nor the faster AF. Nor the best flash system...... Pentax can only resort to: we have the smaller camera with weather seals, good IQ, reasonable high ISO, so so dynamic range and AF, regular performance, some good exotic lenses....
As for ergonomics to each its own. I have hypertrophied thumbs that push basically everything on their way. If I am going to do a review I wouldnt put that on the minus list of the camera since it is mainly my problem. But as I told before, it is the way the reviewer rolls. I have seen him doing the same with basically every brand on the market.
My point is that people on this forum is very anal with their equipment and dont realize that what they perceive as a sort of negligence or conspiracy, it is simply a problem of cognitive disonance. People with cameras have it. Parents with childs have it. Sports fans have it and so on.
To summarize my POV: yes, I think that the hands on report of LL is sloppy (as it is with most of the equipment reviews). Yes, I think that he is mostly right on his comments. No, I dont think there is a secret conspiracy or agenda.