But William, as you said yourself below, this is all mentioned in the manual. It's not doing anything that you don't have control over and can't anticipate. It's not arbitrary. You're changing modes.
The only thing I can't figure out is if it's undocumented that pressing the Exposure Compensation button has any effect, as you says it does. That's not what Pentax is saying, but if it happens for everyone, then it needs to be documented and fixed IMHO. Also, if the Fn buttons aren't useful to you when your eye is at the viewfinder, how is that camera suppose to know that? What about when you're using Live View? How is the camera suppose to know "I'm composing the shot now?" Well, the designers said, "the user will press the OK button to make the switch to AF positioning." In a perfect world, the camera would read your mind, I'm sure. But I don't think it's too much trouble to anticipate pressing OK after a person change modes (Info, AV, etc.). You're commanding the camera to tell it, "I'm in a focusing routine now." That feels like control to me. Michael >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 r>everted 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. -- 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.
