I won’t be able to post photos for a bit because I still don’t have internet at home, other than a cell phone hotspot, from when a tree fell on my neighbor’s house last Tuesday. Let’s just say that I am not currently thrilled with TPC.
I did get a chance to play with the K-3 III and my 70-200 tonight, and test their weather proofing, in the rain, as a work crew cut a tree down that had fallen on the power lines, a few feet from my property line, on the other side of the house than the tree fell a week ago. We had a power since Sunday at 6PM, but I didn’t let that make me complacent, I powered down my desktop when I left for work this morning, because it’s rainy in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and was supposed to get a little bit wet. So power from Sunday at 6PM until Tuesday at 2PM, that’s like over 40 hours, a guy could get spoiled. I learned a couple of things about the 3 III tonight. First of all, there’s a little button in the upper left of the back, which is easy to miss in the dark, it’s right next to the metering mode button. If you bump it, you won’t be able to adjust aperture, shutter speed or ISO. If you do so in the rain, in the dark, when you aren’t familiar with the camera, and the controls inexplicably stop working you. might mistakenly think that the weather sealing didn’t work as well as it should, but might be puzzled why they e-dials still worked on the menus. I have also learned that as handy as the touch screen controls might be, in the rain it can get very confused. The photo review and preview stop working and a bunch of other strange things happen as well. I also learned that if you put on a hard hat and a high visibility vest people are a lot more likely to assume that you’re supposed to be where they chewed you out for being a couple of hours previously. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from ret4est -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
