Ugly it may be, but the button & control layout is superb, the grip (and battery grip) fill the hand perfectly and it's got the best rear-LCD display I've ever seen (the rear display rotates as the body does, and you can navigate it with the joystick to change settings, works brilliantly).
I often wish I'd bought an A700 instead of my Nikon D300, but I already did have a lot of Nikon glass even when I was shooting Pentax primarily due to my ongoing love of older Nikon film bodies. The D300's an incredibly body, but the UI and ergonomics are rather rough around the edges. -Adam On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Tim Øsleby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A-700 is plain ugly with batterygrip, but every button is dublicated, > and seem to be at the right place. > > MaritimTim > > 2008/6/26 Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Toine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/pentaxk20d/ >>> >>> I admired the comparison pages, where they pixel-peeped some RAW >>> images from the K20 and a couple competitors and said "essentially >>> identical". True enough, which is why ergonomics and speed are so >>> important. Given the image quality parity, the most important thing a >>> modern SLR can do is get out of your way. -T >> >> Yep, and the K20D is very good at that (as is the Sony A700, which is >> king at this for me). Nikon hasn't quite figured it out, but their >> stuff has other benefits. >> >> >> -- >> M. Adam Maas >> http://www.mawz.ca >> Explorations of the City Around Us. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > MaritimTim > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
