do you mean the "evil" LV button or the "EVIL" LV button?
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Dario Bonazza <[email protected]> wrote: > Tanya Love wrote: > >> This is an interesting line of conversation for me, as I NEVER use >> anything >> BUT the centre focus point. I am in such a habit of positioning that >> point >> on whatever I want in focus and half-pressing to lock it, then moving the >> camera to recompose the shot, I find it clumsy and time-consuming to play >> with focus points. Especially, when I am shooting fast moving kids, it is >> so intuitive to me now, to do as I just mentioned and I just don't even >> think about it anymore. >> >> Would I benefit, do you think from changing this habit and selecting >> individual focus points? Is there a way of doing this quickly, and >> without >> lots of button pressing? > > The K20D was so good at it, as it only needed to press the unmistakable > '4-way ring' while looking through the viewfinder. > The K-7 is a lot worse, as you have to find the proper arrow button (no > longer a ring, unfortunately) and you risk to press the evil LV button > instead. It happens to me about 50% of the times, thus resulting in the Live > View screen flashing in your eye, while the viewfinder blacks-out! I find > this the most annoying step back of the K-7 upon the K10D/K20D series. I've > asked Pentax to update the K-7/K-5 firmware so that the LV button can be > disabled, while re-assigning the LV function to the trash button, which has > no use while shooting. To no avail, of course! > > Dario > > -- > 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. > -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
