Hi everybody,
I'm quite new to the K7, bought in July, but it seems I was unlucky with this
camera... I tried to find something about these topics in the archives and in
the web but to no avail, maybe our list gurus can help me to see if I'm right
or
wrong...
First, since the times of the K20 I'm used to set the camera to 10Mp instead of
14 for most of my shooting, to save room on the cards and on the hard disks.
When I started using the K7 I noticed that the 100% frame coverage of the
finder
was somehow odd, giving a larger view than that of the 10Mp files written to
the
card. This happens also, but very little, with the 14Mp jpegs. So, the 100%
frame coverage is real only shooting in RAW, but is a real PITA trying to frame
accurately when shooting jpegs (with 10Mp jpegs almost an exercise in
masochism...). I don't know if someone out there has experienced something of
that kind.
Now I'm shooting 14Mp jpegs, but I'm going to write to Pentax Japan about this:
I think it's real mad to build a 100% finder that is not usable with all the
shooting options. I really prefer to have to cut away, from time to time, the
occasional thing protruding from the side of the frame instead of finding the
subject with the feet almost cut by the frame border...
Second, with the K7 I bought a couple of 16GB cards (class 4) that in real life
cannot be used to shoot movies because... the camera stops shooting by itself
after around 1 minute... I've been told that it's a problem of writing speed,
and there's the need of a faster card. Using the class 6 or 10 SD cards the
problem disappears, fine, but nothing is stated in the manual about this (the
manual says that is possible to record up to 25 minutes but the camera never
gives this kind of limit).
Apart from that the camera is really great (I still prefer the K20 button
layout, though), unfortunately is already back to the assistance for an erratic
behavior of the front dial... :(
Ciao,
Gianfranco
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