To everyone who thinks the Pentax has decided that SR can be left on
while panning, perhaps they should update their documentation.
Page two on this PDF hosted at the Pentaximaging.com site
http://www.pentaximaging.com/pdf/All_Bodies_Shake_Reduction_012208.pdf
or the K-7 manual on page 310 of the K-7 manual
http://www.pentaximaging.com/pdf/K-7_e_web.pdf
or the K20D manual on page 267
http://www.pentaximaging.com/files/scms_docs//K20D_Manual.pdf
I'll leave it as an exercise for the student to check out the manuals
for the K10D, K100D, K200D and K2000/K-m. But I'll wager they all say
it's best to turn off SR while panning, as well as while using a tripod,
taking macros, etc.
I think I'll take the word of the Pentax engineers and marketing folks
that SR should be turned off, I tried a couple of panned shots of flying
birds and they came out looking double exposed. I deleted them but I'm
sure I'll forget to turn SR off again, and I'll post some samples.
Joseph McAllister wrote:
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
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