On Aug 27, 2009, at 07:00 , P. J. Alling wrote:
Removing the switch and making it a small production to turn SR on
and off shows what I think is a "Point and Shoot" design mentality
the same thing that resulted in the focus control debacle, This type
of mentality doesn't belong in the design of a relatively high end
camera, hell, it doesn't belong in the design of Point an Shoot
camera.
Unlike the focus point issue it looks like it's not an easy a fix,
what with the hardware switch being gone and all...
Most of my photography of dogs is either panning or hoping the
'predictive' auto-focus will afford me some good shots. As far as
panning goes, I never turn SR off, and my opinion is it has little
effect on the sharpness or quality of the resulting images. I rarely
remember to turn it off when I'm on a tripod with a remote release!
What I'm saying is that Pentax probably realized that in fact leaving
it on all the time for an outdoor shooter, or off all the time for a
studio shooter, was not that important a deal. Given that their users
weren't complaining, they relegated the switch function to a less
intrusive menu item.
Joseph McAllister
pentax...@mac.com
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