Page 310 of the K7 manual deals with SD card capacity in different
modes. Page 2 of the PDF at the Pentaximaging.com site says shake
reduction can be turned off when panning. Doesn't say it has to be
turned off. I know that great pan results can be achieved with SR left
on. I make judgements based on results rather than on the opinion of
others.
Paul
On Aug 27, 2009, at 4:55 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
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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