Can't be sure. The 40D's Live View kinda sucked, it doesn't really have the resolution on the rear LCD to truly determine critical focus.. D300's is much better due to the much higher resolution rear LCD. But you should be able to get accurate focus with either.
-Adam On 1/23/08, Tim Øsleby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My german is worse than my english. > > Anybody got an idea on how useful the Live View will be? Will we be able to > use it to get accurate focus in a tripod setup? > > Tim Typo > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Øsleby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 7:27 PM > Subject: Official K20D and K200D (Almost) > > > >A bit premature(?) release of the manualls from the german distributor > > PDF's at bottom of page > > http://www.pentax.de/_de/photo/service/download.php?photo&service&download > > I don't read geman very well I find: > > > > CMOS sensor > > ISO 100-6400 > > Same fps as K10 > > 4 EV SR (one step improvement) > > PC-sync > > 19 segment metering (how many does K10 have?) > > 2,7 Live view LCD > > More sophisticated jpg controll > > Same battery and BG-2 > > Physical it looks almost idenitcal to K10. > > > > I can't find the bomb in the specs, but it seems a worthwhile upgrade to > > me. > > Let the whining begine ;-) > > > > Ben, the high profile fasion Pentax user has promised us picture samples. > > They will be published somewhere at pentaxforums.com, probably other > > places > > too. > > > > Tim Typo > > > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.9/1237 - Release Date: > > 22.01.2008 11:04 > > > > > > > -- > 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.

