Wow...they sure make some UGLY cameras. It's obvious by the post above that this is a trend...some designer(s) need to hang it up and retire already. Wow, those things are to cameras what the AMC Pacer was to cars!!!
I actually think Sony did a good thing with the Sony R1 (I've still got mine) - they weren't going for super small with that design, and it works ergonomically.
This design can be traced back in the film age to the olympus AZ300. My parents had one when I was a teenager. Made decent pictures, but never liked the form factor (and the button activated zoom was awfully slow to operate).
When you think about it, Olympus single handedly created an impressive number of successful camera designs throughout camera history, that have since been copied by virtually every other brand.
I think the original post was more satire... but since everyone seems to be sony bashing right now. I'll offer 2 other cameras and their companies everyone can bash on for having cameras that look and style the same :
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At least Nikon had the common sense to label the Left and Right micrphones so the sound waves know which side to enter from.
Yeah, my post was tongue in cheek. I was doing some shots with the 7-14mm attached to the Pen 2 when for some reason the NEX image popped into my head.
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