On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 08:51:16PM -0600, William Robb wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob Sullivan" > Subject: Re: Oh another K-7 thread... > > > > timber, > > The rest of us have no idea where you are looking to form your opinions. > > Maybe you can back them up with something? Pictures, links, ??? > > Really. To me, it isn't missing anything crucial. A higher sync speed would > have been nice, but it isn't a killer for me. Other than that, I kinda have > to wait until I can get my hands on one to see if the AF is sufficiently > fast for me. For the rest, it looks pretty darned good. > > William Robb
Looks better than "pretty darned good" to me - unless there are some really strong negative reports from the GFM crowd I'll be buying one. Sure, I'd like the faster sync speed. But the lack of it (and the slower frame rate) didn't tempt me back to using my PZ-1p. Most of the time high-speed sync serves well enough, although when you are using trailing-curtain sync I believe you don't even get 1/180 of a second (the *ist-D dropped back to 1/60; I don't know what later bodies did). The 1/8000 second is very welcome for those of us trying to use fast lenses in California sun; I don't have ND filters for all my f/2.8 lenses (or for the 250-600), and sometimes the minimal depth of field of a fast lens is what you want. In any case, changing shutter speed is a lot more convenient than playing with filters. The K10D (1/4000 top speed; ISO 100) is OK most of the time; the *ist-D (minimum ISO 200) was marginal. The frame rate is quite a big deal for me, too. I really liked the responsiveness of the PZ-1p (4+fps), even though I mostly used it in single-frame mode; the faster frame rate results in a shorter viewfinder blackout time, and the camera is ready for another shot sooner; I occasionally find myself trying to take the next shot before the (3fps) K10D is ready. -- 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.
