Oh, if only it disengaged the cam. I've been doing a bit of shooting with a Minolta Maxxum 7, which can be configured to disengage the cam when the AF button is pressed, and it's invaluable. This was part of my brief foray into considering an A700 (Something I still might buy, best ergonomics I've come across).
-Adam On 12/24/07, Derby Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote: > > On 2007-12-24, at 14:21, Boris Liberman wrote: > > > > > >> Hi! > >> > >> I went to the settings menu and set up the AF button in such a way > >> that when pressed it disables the AF (value: 2). So I point my camera > >> at something and press the button. The "MF" lights up in the > >> viewfinder. However I still cannot rotate the lens manually, so that I > >> suppose that the AF screwdriver is not retracted. > >> > >> Can anyone please explain me what then this setting means? > >> > > Hi Boris, > > this setting works only when you have a lens with QSF mechanism > > mounted - this means DA and DFA series only ;-) > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > Sylwek > > > > > > > > > > > Boris, > > Option 2 lets you (auto) focus to a certain distance, recompose the > frame, and fire off the shutter, without the recomposed shot being in > focus (i.e. the camera is in temporary MF mode). It doesn't disengage > the cam though. > > Not that useful for me, but there you go. I use Option 3 (centre AF > spot), and I've whinged enough about that. > > D > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
