Agreed
Agreed, but is that actually possible to achieve within the DSLR design. I don't believe the K-1 is significantly better or worse than similarly designed cameras with optical VFs from other marques. This suggests there is little scope for improvement in this area.
That's only achievable if there is scope to further the concept. I'm not convinced that there is. If there isn't a different direction is required or simply give up.

It is surely simpler removing the prism and mirror swapping it for an EVF than taking an EVF and adding a prism and mirror assembly! Basically a K-1 with just live view with an EVF. How much extra design work is that?
The constraints of mirror flipping etc are thus eliminated. Like it or not I feel this direction is inevitable.
The camera along these lines would be easier to use than a K-1 in liveview and not too different through the VF.
If funding from Ricoh or someone else dries up they'll be no further development in any event.

Thanks. Isn't that another name for the 'Diadem' (Araneus diadematus)?

An EVF is only an eye level version version of the back screen.
Some cameras now manage to automatically switch between the two without user intervention.
The work creating the K-01 won't suddenly have undone itself, it is part the way there!
Good EVFs are virtually indistinguishable from optical VFs now it would seem (though they certainly never used to be.)
If Pentax don't go down that route where can they go? You've implied there is little scope within the existing design.

Will do, thanks Joihn. I wonder what others feel or is it just me?

Is their any way to alter this site's pale grey text on pale gray/white? I'm finding it increasingly difficult and straining on the eyes reading text here?
Some sites offer alternative colour schemes to alleviate this.

Thank you.

Yes it could well be that. Thanks.

It worked in the K-01.
If that had had an EVF it might have been better.
Given the K-01 exists, surely much of the dev work will have been done.
Such a camera would give the Canon M series and some of the Fujis a run for their money given Pentax designers' feature implementation potential.
Admittedly, such a camera would require more than just a new circuit board!

A K-1 or an E-1. Choice is a great thing, especially if lenses can be shared!

Just found this chap hanging around in the garden. Is it a false widow?




A scary looking thing whatever it is. (It was around an inch long.)


10 minutes later he's enjoying his bank holiday afternoon tea; a wasp:

That would suggest there isn't much more room for development possible for that type of camera then. If that is the case then maybe time for an EVF. Not the K-01 version but a true eye level version as other brands are now implementing. The image quality viewed through those is much better than it was just a few years go. Once a virtually useless method, now not too bad. That would surely keep the Pentax naysayers happy too!
A Pentax E-1 maybe? It might be a little chunkier than the opposition if it keeps the K mount (I'd hope it would) Sizewise around an ME/MX but a little thicker to accommodate the sensor and rear screen.
That coupled with some new PLM lenses should see it fly.