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Why not a titanium body ?

Started Sep 11, 2020 | Discussions thread
Ian Stuart Forsyth
Ian Stuart Forsyth Veteran Member • Posts: 4,095
Re: Why not a titanium body ?
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zakaria wrote:

what I want from Pentax:

a strong yet light "titanium" body like Fujifilm X Pro 3 or an aluminum body like K01 to keep the weight much lighter than stainless steel.

If they cut out all of the stainless steel chassis of most of the Pentax camera I have seen you would only be saving the max of about 63 grams but then you would have to replace it with something else so you maybe would save half of that weight

The design:

is by sliding all the upper buttons and keeping a small screen at the top right. Why not go back to a design close to the K5 instead of crowding buttons .

Weight:

close to the weight of K50 or KS1.

I hope to see a body matching with the limited lenses. Let's keep K1 line for the Star lenses and the APS-C for the ltds lense .

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