RiceHigh's Pentax Blog: Sony A77 and Pentax K20D are Looking so Alike!

Friday, August 26, 2011

Sony A77 and Pentax K20D are Looking so Alike!

Well, sometimes a picture worths a million words.. And two pictures worth more than two million words and so on! Action! ;-D

N.B. Picture Sources: Imaging Resource:-
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/AA77/AA77A.HTM
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/K20D/K20DA.HTM

Oh well, the ex-Pentax engineers should have been with Sony now, my bet! :-o

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Michael A. · 707 weeks ago

And the hand grip looks so K-5'ish... Not a bad idea Sony looks at hard to beat Pentax ergo genius.. :o)

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RiceHigh 110p · 707 weeks ago

I still don't think the controls of the A77 is as easy as the K-5's, though.

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Michael A. · 707 weeks ago

As a user of 2 k-5 bodies (black&silver), I would have to say you are right on. K-5's hand-fingers layout works best for me in comparison even with N&C (D300&7D). No hands-on. with Sony though...

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ddk · 707 weeks ago

That's a Minolta styled grip, it's been with alpha line since forever.

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Kaisern · 707 weeks ago

The two are no more alike than others

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Stephen · 707 weeks ago

Agreed. They look like.... black DSLR's. Surprise!

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Themask · 707 weeks ago

you should check the A700 body design before falling into this look alike trap!

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RiceHigh 110p · 707 weeks ago

The A700 does not have the curves that the A77 and K20D and the overall shape does not look even close. Look:-

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/AA700/ZYFRO...

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Fred · 707 weeks ago

I wondered why I thought the A77 looked so nice!

Pentax make the nicest looking and most ergonomic cameras (K-r excepted, it looks like a conehead).

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Simon · 706 weeks ago

The lens release button looks like copied from Canon 5D.

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RiceHigh 110p · 706 weeks ago

Oh yes.

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ray weeler · 706 weeks ago

this is the most stupid thread i've ever read.... it's like comparing two spanish guitars , one made in spain, the other , in mexico .... so what?
what really matters, how they sound !!!!! and not how they look !!!!