I never shoot jpegs, so I haven't encountered any problems with the finder. In regard to the movie recording, what you're seeing is the result of a card that's not up to the task. Can't blame the camera for that. Although it would have been nice of Pentax to spec a card. With a Sandisk Extreme III 8 gig card, the camera keeps shooting until I stop, although I haven't gone beyond a few minutes. Paul On Sep 3, 2010, at 7:47 AM, Gianfranco Irlanda wrote:
> 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 > _ > > > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
