On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:31 -0600, "William Robb" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Now, about the 4 way controller. > Unless I've missed something, the 4 way controller is broken. By default, > it > provides access to the various functions, and one has to press the OK > button > to get it to work as an AF point selector. Unfortunately, it won't bloody > stay as a focus point controller when set to that function. It takes > every > possible opportunity to revert to function control. > Check your exposure with the instant review, when you go to take a > picture, > you've lost access to focus point selection. Let the camera go to sleep, > its > back to function select when you wake it up. Turn it off and back on, it > is > on function control again. I believe I had it revert a few times just > because, and not for any reason I could fathom. > There is a little icon in the viewfinder that lights up to tell the > operator > that the focus point controller is active, but I still found it to be > really > annoying to have to be constantly resetting the function > > Note to Pentax: Please put an option in the remembered settings to allow > one > to choose what the 4 way switch defaults to. I might be mis-understanding the problem but I seem to recall some discussion on this a month or so ago. According to this post from Mark, the 4 way controller can be set to provide access to functions or as a focus point selector (via a custom setting?? - I don't know). Anyway here's the relevant post: http://pdml.net/pipermail/pdml_pdml.net/2009-May/178774.html Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail -- 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.
