I am with Cotty here. Even modest?! 5 fps of my K-7 frighten me every time I set it to this mode and press the button.
Also I am thinking that there is "good" and "bad" technology. E.g. "good" is 100% viewfinder whereas "bad" is 51 points auto focus with extra ability of manual override to any of 51 points... On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Cotty <[email protected]> wrote: > Rattling off at 8 fps is neither here nor there. Why not just record HD > video on that camera at 30 or even 60 fps and look through hundreds of > frames for that absolutely perfect snap? Sure professional sports > photogs get paid by results and so we would all sell most if not all our > souls to the devil for a good paycheck and that may well mean 8 fps gunning. > > Horses for courses. If you want to shoot amazing wildlife like that or > capture perfect sports stills, Canon or Nikon would be a good choice for > the technology. For most other aspects of non-professional (and even > sometimes paid) photography, Pentax and Olympus et al would be a better > choice - and as we all know, life is *all* about choices. > > I'm not in the market for a DSLR at the moment, but if I was i think i > would buy a K7D today. I want something different. -- Boris -- 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.

