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Thursday, April 19, 2012

RH-02 K-mount Mirrorless ;-)

Someone said that the RH-01 is not thin enough, so I've created the RH-02 as its replacement! ;-) (Have I acted quickly enough?)



Is it better this time? This is what a K-mount mirrorless should be, for a much slimmer, smaller and lighter body with a thin lens on it! Right? In fact, the overall thickness of the above is not much thicker than that of when the thinnest pancake lens of NEX is mounted. Just compare against the following:-



Since the K-01 is thick and without a flipping monitor, Pentax/Ricoh can now start to make the next thinner model as K-02, just like what I've done! Yes, for a new model! And also the next next model with a flipping mon as K-03 and then the next^3 model as K-04 for being equipped with an EVF also! Then that may come to the end of the line when it happens! ;-D Lol..


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Simon · 673 weeks ago

Very nice RH :) The Sony NEX caught my attention a while ago, I would chose a black body over a red one, I like the idea to have a small and stealthy camera, much better for street photography, I think.
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jlahuer · 673 weeks ago

Apart from Pentax, I also own a NEX-3...it is even red !! ;-)
It is great for 'family pics' and videos, actually it has completely replaced my K20D for this kind of subjects. However, when it comes to 'artistic' photography, whatever it means, i don't fell comfortable composing with the LCD (except unusual point of view, thanks tho the articulated LCD). I miss a viewfinder and I am not sure if I would like the EVF available for the NEX-5N.
Besides, mounting other's mounts lenses with adapter is fun but...you lose AF, changing aperture is not always possible (depending on the lens/adapter) and, the more important, no stabilization.
And this is my main complain about a camera so slim, you need the lenses to be stabilized instead of sensor.

Anyway, I also would like the K-01 to be much smaller.
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John · 673 weeks ago

Maybe Sony shoudl buy Pentax, just like they Acquired KonicaMinolta.
I know Sony has some financial problems, but on the other hand, Pentax can't be that expensive.
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Alex · 673 weeks ago

Yeah, Pentax should be bought by a company with deep financial issues, which would only want to kill them to protect their own mounts. A hostile buy-out would be required (but can they target only Pentax, or Ricoh itself?) because obviously Pentax is not for sale.

Btw, nice combo - can you mount a (real) flash on it? ;)
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Art · 673 weeks ago

If Sony wanted to kill Pentax, they would just stop selling them sensors. Sony is perfectly happy with another camera maker buying their LCDs and sensors
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Alex · 672 weeks ago

We're talking about different divisions of Sony. The sensor division (Sony Semiconductor something?) is happy to sell to e.g. Nikon and Pentax, because that's where good money comes from.
For the camera division, though, it makes absolutely no sense to buy Pentax and invest big $$$ on developing the K-mount system - given that they have their own Alpha mount. With the acquisition of Minolta, they pretty much have everything.
Then, why would a big company acquire a smaller one, if not to strengthen its portfolio? To kill it, of course. John (without realizing) asked for Pentax death.
However, not even that doesn't make much sense; what would they gain, a fraction from the tiny market share? And a very bad reputation, not that it's so good right now.
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frank · 673 weeks ago

does it have shake reduction
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RiceHigh 110p · 673 weeks ago

No problem. That would be RH-05! :-D
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danny · 673 weeks ago

Is the rubber pump on the lower right corner in place to blow the body up to the correct thickness (same as KO1)??
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Andrew Munster · 672 weeks ago

you lack of knowledge of optics is overwhelming, this will cause so much optical distortion and quality will be low.
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Amilcar Alzaga · 655 weeks ago

So, possibly, the lack of autofocus, (does it has aperture control?) and the lack of optical stabilization would make up for the reduced size?
Because Pentax has great nice small bodies and sweet smallish optics, but those smalish optics require the focusing drill in the camera body... (I don't like the K01, by the way, it looks to me like a camera with all the disadvantages of a mirorless camera and none of it's advantages... I have both, K5 and NEX 5n -and K7 and NEX 5, lately I only use the K5 whenever the situation needs for the weather sealing or using my macro or zoom lenses, otherwise, I'm in love with my NEX doing manual focusing with my voightlander lenses)

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