Another form person claims they actually called and asked Pentax and was told 1.03 was to enhance SR effectiveness by improving the accuracy of determining lens focal length.
Jack --- On Fri, 4/10/09, Graydon <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Graydon <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: K20D firmware update > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 5:30 PM > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:39:38AM +0200, Tim Øsleby > scripsit: > > I'm pretty sure it has an impact on AF. > > > > Yesterday was waiting for a White-throated Dipper. > While waiting I > > played a bit with the AF at the stream. No way I could > get the damn > > thing to lock except when trying at some rocks. After > wards I did the > > upgrade. > > > > Today I sat by the same river, with same lens, at > exactly same spot. > > The light was very similar. When retesting, it focused > just as we > > should expect it to do. Every time I tried it focused, > and it did > > pretty fast to. Impressive :-) > > Yup. > > Historical "point camera at flying gull in a bright > sky" lock rate has > been about one in five. Today's 20 gulls all locked. > Most of the > vulture and hawk attempts locked, too. > > Focus confirmation with the 1.03 firmware is also much, > much faster. > > No idea what, if anything, it did to anti-shake, but the > auto-focus > improvement is substantial. > > -- Graydon > > -- > 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. -- 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.
