On Sep 24, 2008, at 5:44 AM, Sandy Harris wrote: > I'd say in a correct design, you'd use menus only to set up the > camera. During actual shooting, everything you need to do > should be doable without taking the camera from your eye. > > Any Pentax digital do that? Or come close?
Actually, the K10D does that pretty well, as did the *ist DS. Only settings that are configuration issues or rarely used options require poking into the Menu system. Most everything used in day to day shooting, aside from drive mode, has a discrete switch on the K10D and drive mode is on the Fn button so you don't have to go into the full menu system to find it. But "without taking the camera from your eye" ... hmm. I don't keep at camera at my eye for very long, normally. I just want the switches to be easy to see, learn, understand, and use. I rarely make settings changes with the camera at my eye, other than focus of course and occasionally bumping EV compensation or performing manual metering. I'd never change drive mode or meter pattern with the camera at my eye, for instance. Godfrey -- 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.
