If my camera was given to abhorrent behavior and doing strange things on its own, I wonder if I wouldn't think it was possessed. I know I'd be jealous if took better pictures without me.
I can understand the frustration if it seems unpredictable, but the buttons' AF point selection and reversion to Fn should be entirely predictable, based on the criteria of the manual that explicitly states that changing modes on the camera reverts the buttons to Fn. That sounds in keeping with what most K-7 users have seen so far. If you know what to expect, there's no mystery. I think we need a few more people to verify William's observation of the "arbitrary" reversions. I know I've seen cameras do strange things, but I'm not entirely convinced yet. In so far as the manual is concerned (p. 124), if you switch AF modes, the AF point is stored, even if you turn the camera off. Michael >Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:20:25 +0200 >From: AlunFoto <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Changing focus area on K-7 > >For a typical autofocus-intensive shoot; ie. bird photography, I >typically alternate between multi-point AF and point-selection. The >arrangement with the ring around the 4-way controller on the hitherto >cameras has worked very well for this alternation. It is operable >without removing the eye from the viewfinder. > >How does K-7 operation of the corresponding switch around the AF button work? > >Does the K-7 remember the selected focus point if one flips to >multi-point and then back to point-selection? > >Jostein -- 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.
