It's a critical issue for me as well. I work the focus point selection
continuously, and I occasionally check my histograms. I want to have
focal point selection available all the time. My K7 arrives Thursday
or Friday, so I'll have to see if I can cope. I may have to continue
using the K20D until the fix becomes available. Although I've found
that I can generally get used to camera inconveniences. (Heck, I
became so accustomed to loading my supposedly difficult to load Leica
iiif RD that I could do it while walking on a dark street.) But I want
a fix.
Paul
On Jul 7, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Dario Bonazza wrote:
Doug Brewer wrote:
dammit, we need to send smarter people to GFM.
I've been shooting with this camera almost every day for the last
month and I have yet to see this as an issue worth getting upset
about. In Sel mode you push the OK button and use the D-pad to move
the focus points. Very simple. Any deviation from that has been due
to my own fumble fingers or more likely my wandering off from the
task at hand.
I won't disagree with what Bill experienced; the camera does do
that (except maybe for reverting to default for spite) but I think
I've just become accustomed to hitting the OK button after I've
been doing something other than moving the focus point, and I agree
that a custom option that locks in the D-pad when you turn the
indicator to SEL would be a good thing, in practice I've just not
seen it as that big a deal.
Doug and others, I apologize if anyone will feel offended by my
words. That was not my intention for sure.
However, I've had the impression that someone on this list didn't
realize how annoying a function which reverts to something else (at
the camera's will) can be. OK, apparently the way you use the camera
doesn't make it a problem. I'm fine with that, but can you
acknowledge it is not an improvement over the previous operating
standard? For me and the way I use the camera, it was a plain mess
and I'm glad Pentax is acknowledging and fixing that. Period.
Again, I apologize for my words, if perceived as not respectful
enough.
Cheers,
Dario
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