Originally posted by pathdoc If you're shooting something like the K-1 one handed you're doing it wrong. My *istDL with the 40mm Limited Pancake was a one handed camera, my K-5 somewhat less so. I have long since resigned myself to the fact that a K-1 simply will not be a single handed camera except in the direst situation where I MUST point the camera and get that shot right now while doing something with the other hand.
I never said I wanted to shoot it one-handed or that it was a good idea to do so. I merely observed that Simon was holding it with one hand, and his hand was shaking -- thus making it apparent that this is a large and hefty camera.
Quote: In another five or six years, we may get to the point where an independent entrepreneur or small company can develop a drop-in digital substitute for film that works smoothly, and then the used film camera market will go wild. When that happens I will buy one. Until then, my next digital camera will be a K-1 and I have no problem with the size. They busted a gut getting it as small as it was - unless you want it made of plastic, it's not getting any smaller and it's not getting any lighter. Deal with it.
Apparently "it's not getting any smaller and it's not getting any lighter" unless it's made by Fuji or Olympus, who don't seem to have any problem turning out cameras with 35mm SLR form factor today. The Fuji even has a control scheme that mimics a Pentax ZX-5n. We don't have to wait for some future technological breakthrough to enable cameras of this type.
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Originally posted by Davidparis Afraid I must concur. The K-1 is small and robust compared to the current industry equivalents. Don't see the issue...at all.
I don't see the issue either. I never raised any "issue" or made any complaint. I never said the K-1 is too big for what you get or for what it does. I just said it is, in fact, big. It's big like medium format film cameras used to be big. It delivers the image definition (more or less) of a 6X9 film camera and ISO performance way beyond film. It's great. But easy portability is not its strength, and it doesn't fit into the same category as the classic 35mm SLRs that were all about portability.