Thanks Paul! I figured as such with the video - not "needing" it, but there has certainly been times, mainly on a personal level with my kids etc, when I've been out with them, camera over my shoulder and I've thought to myself, "oh, if only the *istD had a video capability" when they've done something particularly cute. Plus the HD aspect and HDMI input is certainly attractive.
With the Live Preview, I am the same, never having had one with the *istD and that being the ONLY camera I have shot with in oh, about 6 years now! I don't see myself ever using it, as like I said, it is a battery sucker, rather than anything else, especially with the viewfinder having 100% coverage on the K-7. I just mainly wondered if anyone else had found that it has an application that I hadn't already thought of that was disadvantaged by it's slowness on that point. Tan. :) Paul wrote: The video capability is nice, but it requires manual focus. However, that's not too much of a problem when using wide lenses in relatively good light. I bought a hood with diopter adjustment for the live view screen. That makes manual focus fairly easy, even when moving. I think the HD video capability in combination with the excellent lenses would be useful for serious applications. I've been thinking about trying to shoot a demo 30-second commercial with it. For kid's birthdays and stuff like that, my Sony video camera is a better choice. I never use live preview mode and rarely shoot in live view, so I can't offer any input there. I have used live view occasionally for framing in situations where I couldn't get to the viewfinder, and I found it useful. But I prefocused. Paul -- 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.
