----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" Subject: Re: Pentax K7
> I'm disappointed to see that the autofocus systems appears to be > basically the same, with just new firmware to support it. I'm beginning > to suspect that the next camera, perhaps a K30D, will be a bit more of > an upgrade. I may wait. Price will have a lot to do with determining > whether or not I buy this camera now. I'm not realy unhappy with the K20 AF other than it could be faster. If the processor is faster and the AF motor is more robust, that would answer most of my concerns. I never quite find the AF points to be quite where I want them to be, but I suspect that this is something that is pretty much impossible to solve without a ridiculous number of AF points. It appears that they've made AF point selection into a two step process (push the AF button and then pick your AF point). This is unfortunate from my perspective, I use AF selection during shooting way more often than I use the Fn button, so they've kind of buggered things there from my perspective. Still no predictive AF, and no word on if AF speed has been significantly improved over the K20, one can only hope that with 5fps available, they've upped AF performance significantly as well. I do like that they've boosted the frame rate, this should make for a more responsive camera. Even though I rarely use continuous advance, I find the cameras with a faster frame rate just seem to work better for me. I'd like to see an articulated screen, I think it would be very handy for ground level macro work in conjunction with live view, but certainly this isn't more than a nit pick. I'm very interested to hear about how the camera performs from the people who will get to handle it at GFM. It looks like a pretty decent improvment over the K20 in most repects. William Robb -- 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.
