----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Gaudet"
Subject: Re: Changing focus area on K-7
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.
When I switch the AF swith to select I am telling the camera what I want from it. I am telling the camera right then and there that I want AF point selection. As soon as the camera makes me push a button to get back to what I've told it I want, it is getting in the way of my operation. The only time the camera gives me AF point selection as an option is when the AF button is in in SEL, and the camera is taking every opportunity possible to revert out of that option when I've told it (and I have to tell it twice, once when I switch the AF mode and once when it makes me press the OK button).
I'm not asking the camera to read my mind, I'm asking that the camera not try to read my mind. I'm asking that the camera holds the settings that I impose on it until I change them.
The fact that they have documented that they have screwed up the AF point selection setting doesn't mean that it isn't screwed up. That they have a fix in the works (according to Dario) tells me that they realize they screwed up.
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