Originally posted by Rondec I'm not a big fan of touch screens. I often seem to have trouble answering my smart phone on a warm day from tiny bits of moisture (sweat) on my fingers.
I do think you are a bit wrong. Currently, I can change all settings I use consistently using physical buttons on K3 and K-1. Most companies, when they introduce a touch screen do reduce the number of physical buttons available to the user as unnecessary. Of course, Pentax could be different, but that is certainly the tendency.
Wrong how? Like it's my understanding that touch screens are already here in other brands and not a single button has been removed, but I may be mistaken here?
Believe me I'm with you, I too am not a fan of the 'be all and end all' attitude when it comes to touchscreens, the biggest culprit is the smartphone industry, that somehow a screen, volume buttons and perhaps one additional physical home/on/off button is enough!? Pfft... garbage. I too have missed calls due to some stupid touchscreen idiocy. I once tried to answer a call and my phone was upside down, and even though the screen orientated correctly for me and I was swiping correctly to answer the call, it just didn't work. I realised afterwards why, the phone was upside down and although it rotated the screen the whole 'swipe to answer' thing was not working. lol... fail.
Just give me an tactile Answer Call button... <sigh>
It varies from tech to tech. As I've said before, I used to review Mp3 players (or DAPs as they became commonly known as). One company would introduce a touch screen and still keep all the tactile buttons you would need for blind pocket interaction (play, pause, stop, volume, mute, lock, menu button, function button etc), others did away with them all akin to a bare minimum 'smartphone' like interface.
Originally posted by savoche Sure, no problem at all as long as it's in addition to, and not instead of, physical controls. Just let there be a way to disable the thing without losing other functionality and I'm perfectly happy
And that's what I'm hinting/hoping at. Something that would streamline and simplify some aspects of interaction, not force us a different way just for the sakes of it. Hopefully Pentax get it right, but I think most camera brands have actually implemented touch screens well (unlike some other tech).