I like shot 2, the organic swirling pattern of the flock of birds reminds me of a Jackson Pollack painting! Shot 4 is beautiful, about as good a shot of a kingfisher as I've seen.

It's no surprise that Pentax is a no show. No mention of Panasonic either - that is more surprising! As is Kodak's appearance - but if you walk into Tesco's, the cheapest camera you will find will be one of those pedestrian Kodak P&S cameras, and you do see a lot of them. Usually residing in someone's handbag.

Some interesting comments below the article, too - but lets not go there! (Again!)

I don't think Ricoh are at the cutting edge of EVF technology but I haven't heard anything really negative about Ricoh EVFs. Kai (DigitalRevTV)tested the GXR with M module recently; it might be worth checking that out to see what he said about it (I think the gist of it was 'it's good enough'.

'Good enough' is good enough for me, I only want to check focus and composition with the thing.

Now Ricoh's in control, I'm sure some of their EVF technology will start to appear on future Pentaxes. I also expect they'll closely monitor how the K-01 (a Hoya project) goes down and refine the next models accordingly (or have a radical rethink, depending on how well it does).

I guess Ricoh will want the K mirrorless to be distinctive against their own GRX as well... Or maybe they'll cancel it and bring out that rumoured GXR module.

The converging verticals in shot 2 are dynamic and help the composition. I like it! It hangs together better than the other shots IMO - the others have a tad too many distracting elements for my taste.

You don't really need a strong beefy lens mount with the small CSCs, as they're really designed to be paired with smaller lighter lenses. If you mount a big lens their compact size no longer makes sense. A DSLR or DSLR-like camera is a better bet for long teles handheld IMO, because of their heft and their eye-level viewfinder.

I have seen pictures of people using huge telephoto lenses with NEX type cameras, but the lens is supported on a tripod with the camera 'mounted' to the lens - of course there's no issue there as the camera itself is very light.

The man from Sony said that he expected the P&S upgraders to become the main market (the high uptake of enthusiasts initially was because of a latent demand for something more compact to supplement their DSLR).

The K-01 looks like a fairly inexpensive product to develop and bring to market, and will probably do OK by Pentax standards while not troubling Sony and Panasonic too much. But perhaps more importantly the design will put the brand in the spotlight as it prepares to launch two DSLRs which will be more appealing to enthusiasts.

I am sure Pentax are not surprised that the product divides large parts of their existing market. We're not really the intended audience. For example most of us seem to hate HDR. But it is wildly popular. Perhaps we are the ones out of step with the market out there? The HDR mode on the selector dial, which Robin ridiculed a few pages back, shows where this camera might be aimed at.

These pictures have a quiet charm very much in keeping with the subject matter.

'Laws against the eating of blood etc'.... :LOL: