Originally posted by sibyrnes Ha, I knew someone would say that!
Happy to oblige with the obvious comment!
I do like the comparison. There are enough similarities to make me think that Ricoh could have had an LX sitting in front of them during the design meetings.
It would be great if they could reduce the height of the camera in future to make the profile more similar to the LX. Some people would complain about the hold, but I'd like it.
I think the "prism" is so big compared to the LX because it's also housing a flash and the mechanism to raise it. I think there was a good case to be made for leaving the flash out on this model. But I suppose Ricoh did their marketing homework and decided otherwise.