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Why not a titanium body ?

Started Sep 11, 2020 | Discussions thread
bob5050 Senior Member • Posts: 2,948
Re: Why not a titanium body ?
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zakaria wrote:

Most of your comments concentrated in the material point .

what about the weight and the layout?

You're being unrelistic.

Weight: Comparisons from cameradecision

  • K-S1: 558g. 121 x 93 x 70 mm
  • K-70:  688g. 126 x 93 x 74 mm
  • KP: 703g. 132 x 101 x 76 mm
  • K-5: 740g. 131 x 97 x 73 mm
  • K-3: 800g. 131 x 100 x 77 mm

Point: The K-S1, like the K-70, is not a premium camera, it's lighter built than even the KP, which was specifically designed to be light and compact. Weight of the K-S1 simply isn't going to happen in a flagship built to a higher standard of durability.

I don't think the K-S1 will be repeated. We might see an update to the K-70 (K-90?) that could be closer to the 700g mark. But the k-new won't.

Layout: The K-new includes a focus joystick and a new top dial--otherwise the layout looks very close to the K-3/K-5 line.  Obviously, adding additional controls is going to squeeze existing ones a bit. But I don't see the new layout as all that different or hard to get used to.

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