----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Gaudet"
Subject: Re: Changing focus area on K-7
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.
Here's arbitrary for you:
Put the camera into Tv, switch the AF selector to on.
Change the camera to manual and try to select an AF point. Even though the
AF point selector icon is still lit in the viewfinder, the switch has
reverted to function mode and you have lost AF point selection until you
turn it back on. The camera has made a decision for you regarding what the 4
way controller is doing.
Pressing the info button turns off AF point selection, pressing the exposure
compensation button turns off AF point selection, checking the review screen
to see if you have an acceptable exposure turns off AF point selection.
Sure, this is all mentioned in the manual, but these are all buttons that
are normally used while working with the camera as part of SOP, and the
camera should not be cancelling my settings and imposing settings of it's
own on me.
I want my hammer to pound in the nail I tell it to, not the one that it
decides to pound in.
Even having to press the OK button after I've told the camera I want AF
point selection is the camera making a wrong decision for me. Switching the
AF controller to select should be enough of a hint for the camera that it
should default the 4 way to AF point selection without having to be told
repeatedly that this is what the operator wants.
This may not seem like a big deal, but it is the camera operating in a non
intuitive fashion, and frankly, it is a royal pain in the ass if you use AF
point selection as SOP (I do).
The function of the 4 way switch is broken, it's as simple as that. It
should stay in focus point selection until told otherwise, and should
default back to focus point selection when the AF switch is set to select,
not the other way around.
The firmware revision to fix it can come none to soon .
William Robb
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