I think the Pentax smaller size may well appeal to the P&S crowd if they can make them auto and light enough. The ZX line seems to have accomplished this. For just everyday beating around I like to carry either my ZX-M or even a PZ-10 with a small light beater lens because of their small size, light weight, and if something happens to them I won't cry too much. When I get serious with a have to get the shot I choose my biggest camera, minolta 9xi, before anything else. With the MZ-S and to come *ist series I think they've kind of goofed because these could be classified as semi pro or extremely serious amatuer cameras. With the latter market, I would agree that bigger and heavier is often very desireable.
> The sense I have here in the U.S.A. is that photographers don't really care > much about small size in SLRs. As has been pointed out, the opposite may > actually be true.
