Ms. Soccermom-Smith would probably never change lenses, never take the
autofocus sensor selection off auto select which is the default option,
(you'd have to dive into the main menu to do that) never shoot off the
green setting, unless she changed to the preset modes, your reasoning
seems unlikely,
John Celio wrote:
At best he misses the point. AFAIK no other DSLR from Pentax works that
way. There is no particularly good reason for the K-7 to work that way,
for the vast majority of their current users it's broken. It's almost
Microsoftian in that it's an arbitrary change, simply for the sake of
change, like most of the more infuriating changes from one version of
Windows to the next.
Oh but there IS a reason they changed it.
Do you remember how many people complained about the Fn button on the
K10/20D? I recall people bitching up and down this list about how
they hated having to dive into a menu to change the settings contained
within, how each setting should have its own button, etc. Pentax
tried to accommodate those people and now a whole new set of people
have found a whole new thing to bitch about.
In my opinion, and without having actually held a K7 yet, I think the
new system is superior. I've found it very easy to accidentally move
the focus point in selective point mode on my K10D, either with a
finger or my nose. An extra button press does not bother me.
Anyway, I doubt it's broken "for the vast majority of their current
users," because I doubt a "vast majority" of Pentax users even use the
selective focus point feature. Advanced shooters like us, sure, but
not Mrs. Soccermom-Smith.
John
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