Looks like a fun camera to me, and i can see some usefull aplications like when you want to provide a walk through type experience of a space. Shame you need a smart phone to use it.

I think there is going to be tears

The 50mm is very simular in construction to the 35mm, I would say it's a little better as the focus ring feel a bit nicer.

The 50mm is also sharp, it's not so sharp at 1.8 but i dont think thats a bad thing. It does not suffer from purple fringing as much as the 35mm either.

Another vote for higher dynamic range, shortly followed by higher ISO ability

Its the 'big society' in action

Im not convinced that the two article are linked, the 1st article is mostly devoted to expressing the benefits of High end compacts over a DSLR. The second article shows a decline in ALL camera sales, compact/fixed lens cameras suffering more than most. There is no distinction between high end and low end so its possible that high end compacts have not seen a decline.

My suspicion is the sales decline is due to a combination of market saturation (i.e lots of people already have a digital camera of some form, underwhelming technical advantages - particularly in respect to image quality, and most people continue to be financialy squezed so there is limeted finances to spend on luxury goods, and a good avaiablibity on second hand market.

I just returned from Amsterdam, Saw Three pentax DSLRS, Hundreds of Cannons, modest amount of nikons, a quite a few CSCs and a single Leica.

Worst still, When you get your glasses you might find none of the shots you kept are in focus. No one has dared point it out.

In reality you probually just strained your eyes to see screen properly

If you are feeling brave you could try and fix it yourelf.

http://ricehigh.blogspot.com/2011/01/repair-stuck-sdm-yourself.html

I think i would be a bit scared though, I seemed to recal a couple of people who had sent theirs for repare saying that it came back working faster than before

I think the expose in the second and last picture of the cogs are better than the first. Also feel that they would benefit from a little tweak of the levels in elements, especially the midtones as they seem a little flat.


If your version of elements does not open the PEF files, set the camera to save DNG raw files which it should open OK.

As the thread was started of with you saying you was disapointed with the pictures from you K-R, How do you feel about them, are they any better than you was getting before?