2009/7/4 mike wilson <[email protected]>: > Leon Altoff wrote: > > Looks like you are number one. Spill the beans.....
I don't have a lot of beans to spill yet. Picture taking will happen over the weekend, so you will have to accept testing and setup for now. One major annoyance is that Photoshop CS3 can't recognise the PEF files and I need to upgrade to CS4 if I ever want to. I think I will just stick to DNG for RAW format, I have no other reason to upgrade Photoshop. As for the camera, it feels good. It reminds me of the MZ-S in terms of build quality. I like where the controls are, particularly that the Shake reduction is no longer a slide switch on the back - for some reason I was forever knocking it on the K10D and turning it off while pulling it in and out of my camera bag. I like that the ISO, Flash, drive mode, white balance and exposure compensation are now all easy to get to and change quickly - I nearly never change the focus point off centre, but the others I change regularly so this is good. The mode selector has a button in the middle to unlock it. It's easy to use, but I've never had problems with it moving in the past so I wouldn't have thought of adding one. Autofocus seems fast. Particularly with the 43 and 77 limited lenses which always seemed slow on other cameras due to the amount of distance they have to move. Out of the box it very slightly front focused with some of my lenses. It was an easy experience to adjust each of the lenses using a large ruler and the screen on the camera for checking the focus. Autofocus is now fast and accurate. It took time to go through all the menu options and set it all to my taste, but I've come to expect this. There were no places where I wanted an option that was not provided, a few places where I selected a new option and a couple of setting I still have to look up to see what they actually do. The AF assist light is far better than the flash flicker of the K10D. The flash pop up is very quiet, as it the autofocus with SDM lenses and even the shutter is quiet by comparison to others. ISO 6400 is noisy, I'll have to see how often I use it and how far up the ISO scale I'm happy with. I don't do that much low light stuff so this may take a while. Going into movie mode immediately trips the shutter and gives an image on the screen. The camera gives a countdown on the amount of time still available to record on the card. Again something I will use occasionally, but not soon. There are no spare batteries available as yet, they arrive next week. With luck I won't run out of power half way through a day (it's never happened before, but I expect to be trying out things like movie mode and live view and checking exposure a lot more than I normally do so that will all eat more power. Now with all the testing out of the way, I'm waiting for the sun to come up so I can go out and take pictures. -- Leon -- 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.
