or you could have 70++ little red squares lighting your viewfinder up like it was the fourth of july fireworks, and you still won't have time to change anything if the camera grabs the wrong one...
even my k10's are set to spot on the center one...
you pre-focus and wait for he subject before snapping the shutter, or focus lock and re-compose, or you put it on auto and machine gun it...
all the blinking lights do is distract you...

the samsung nx 10 is only marginally smaller than the kx (both fitted with 18-55mm lenses) so size is hardly the real issue...
the real issue is eliminating the mirror and it's associated mechanics, and a chunk of expensive optical glass from the camera...

so a pelicile mirror helps, a detachable evf finder and articulated flip out display on back, and pentax's sdm lenses gives you silent, fast af while recording video.... older lenses with manual focus work well for video....

The main reason to go evil is this:
You set the camera up so it has a huge buffer and record video and still snap stills at the same time....
My sony camcorders can grab two and five megapixel stills to memory card while sending video to tape/harddrive...simultaneously.
An evil that does that with hd video and 12-20 mp stills would be the ultimate wedding/event camera....

I still obsessing over the idea of a FF Evil... with kmount..
Samsung does all the r&d and pentax only has to re-badge and add Pef to the firmware...
Pentax did consider the video market way back when.. and Samsung really needs a pro level camcorder.....


(1980-something Pentax Nexa video recorder)
that could easily fit the bill as "Lifechanging" Nex model Samsung is hinting about...
Samsungs first 24 x 36 sensor, first pro level video cam (works with millions of k mount lenses), and a pro model still cam that isn't a re-badged Pentax d-slr..
and Pentax finally gets a ff camera that doesn't gut sales from existing models..

so let's hope for a moment that Pentax adds to it's current lineup two more aps cams... one above the k7, one above the kx.... and drops the prices on the current line-up...
then lets hop Pentax and Samsung release a FF Evil (yes I said full frame as in Samsungs 24x36 sensor) model using the k-mount, but biased towards video, with good still abilities as well... (Pentax's patents on 4/3 lenses could be licensed out to Samsung and built for Samsung under some Schnieder-Krunchie brandname...) (no real threat to 645-d sales or new aps-c models that way)
Samsung DOES need some kind of interchangeable lens video camera to compete with Sony, Canon and Panasonic models coming out....

so a FF Evil with detachable evf and full sized kmount marketed as the new Pextax LX model,
and also as a Samsung GX ff model?

I know this bothers many.
I'm utterly convinced it is worrying for nothing...

you can set it to the center mark can you not?
I'm showing my age here, but I (usually manually) focus dead center, re-compose then shoot...... for most subjects..

and on auto for moving subjects like birds, it's in continuous shooting mode anyways, if it misses on one shot, it'll hit on the next and there's no time to manually re-select a focus point in between...

little red squares lighting up all over the screen is something I can live without... seriously..

So Booze and Hard gravity don't mix... lol! trust me, all speculating is pointless, but fun!
all the speculation serves two purposes....
I'm bored, and therefore need to start some kind of argument.

Pentax needs to throw a little gas on this fire sooner or later, if they want to change some of the flames into hot sales.... so eventually we'll see some light...

I try not to think...it confuses me....
Fortunately I'm dyslexic....
drink and think look an awful alike to me.....

therefore I blame the confusion on the booze.

each full stop, wether in aperture or shutter (or iso), is actually a halving or doubling of the light reaching the sensor..(or the sensors apparent sensitivity). so as far as I know 2 stops is four times the light sensitivity....

well Stephan, I think the sony pelicle mirrored cameras are gonna smoke everything else when it comes to af and video combined......
but that matters not to serious video shooters who would be hard pressed to top a pentax "M" lens for manual focus abilities.... I got an m 50 1.4 and an 85 soft focus that are just waiting for video shooting....

it'll be a tough call for me...

but I think the low light shooting that comes close to the newer nikons are gonna be what Pentax aims for.....

I think a real game changer for pentax would be a kx or k7 based evil with detachable evf finder and wi-fi.... and a flip out oled viewer..... that takes both a new line of 4/3 sized custom lenses and comes with an af/sdm adapter for all the old kmount lenses....


oh, and they market it as the new "LX Digital"

having already bought the non wr version of this lens...
I'm not willing to spend the extra money.
two photographic rationalizations, (beside the reality of cost)...
1) when shooting stopped down, I'm shooting macro or studio, no out of focus specular highlights for most shots..
2) when doing portraits outdoors or indoors where there might be such specular highlights, I'm usually wide open aperture... even if I have to resort to nd filters...

so it hardly matters in practice...

now if I was shopping for new, it'd be a no brainer.. the wr, but that ain't enough difference to make me feel like I need to upgrade....