I very much doubt that us poor K10D users will see a firmware upgrade, though. They want me to upgrade to a K20D, I'm sure.
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 03:43:38PM -0400, Ken Waller wrote: > FWIW - > I upgraded my K20D a few days ago & got to try a few lenses on it > yesterday to see if I could notice any difference in focus operation. > None of this is objective as I didn't do any before & after testing but I > can say that subjectively the K20D (with version 1.03) SEEM to focus > noticeably quicker (both near & far focusing ) with my 300mm f4.5 FA & > 16-50mm f2.8 DA* lens, as compared to focusing with version 1.0.. > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margus M?nnik" <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: K20D firmware update > > > I can second that. > Yesterday I finally had both time and weather to play with my long focus > lenses. Shot some 30 minutes with ver 1.01 to accustom, then upgraded > the firmware to ver 1.03 and continued to shoot. I did expected some > tiny difference at best, but wow, I'm really impressed! > DA*300 "flying seagull hit rate" improved at least three times! Also my > FA100-300 (that I rather avoided in the past because of unsteady > focusing) feels now much faster as it "hunts" times less than before. > > BR, Margus > > > > Tim ?sleby wrote: >> 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 :-) > . > > > -- > 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.
