Thanks for this Bill. The compact design is a key thing for me, and one of the reasons that I love the *istD so much. Me, being a girl and all, with my small hands and weak wrists, when I have it loaded up with flash gun, an heavy lens And battery grip, I need to be sure that I can actually hold the thing steady enough to get a sharp pic. I have it pretty much down pat with the *istD (and so I should after shooting with it for so long!), that even when fully "loaded up" I can get a very usable image shooting right down to 1/16 these days, and as I particularly like to shoot with available light whenever I can, I am really excited about the prospects that the in-body image stabilisation might give me.
Battery life is another issue, some of you from GFM when I came might remember the ludicrous amounts of batteries that I go through, which for some reason has always been about double everyone else, even when I am not using the instant review on my camera or flash. The increased FPS rate and buffer size will be a dream too! Can't wait to get my hands on this baby! Tan.x. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tanya Love" Subject: RE: A K7D for Fairygirl (Was Re: Fairygirl is in the house!) > > How many of you have K20s/K7s and do you think the cost is worth the > improvements of the latter over the former? > I do. Aside from the more compact chassis, which I like, the metering accuracy has been improved from practically useless on the K20 to extremely accurate on the K7. AF speed is nominally faster, but for me the big improvement is a side benefit of the 2FPS speed boost. The camera is just way more responsive. Battery life has been hugely improved as well. I no longer feel the need to chimp every shot to check the metering, and I am getting anywhere from 1200 to 1600 exposures per battery. I'm not one of the people who has noticed an improvement in noise performance, but my photography doesn't take me into high ISO land, so it isn't surprising. If you get a K-7, install at the very least, the first firmware release, as it fixes a broken AF point selection problem which Pentax inexplicably let out of the factory. William Robb -- 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. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4758 (20100110) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- 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.
