Strange, never gelt the LV button to be in my way. Different handling of the camera I guess.
2010/9/30, Dario Bonazza <[email protected]>: > I mean evil, eviL, evIL, eVIL, EVIL. Such a dangerous button couldn't be > 'better' misplaced than that! > If I'll ever buy a K-5 (and there is the serious risk), I'm going to glue a > plastic or rubber ring around it, so that I can spot the evil control by > touch with the eye at the viewfinder and won't risk to activate it by > mistake. > Dario > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steven Desjardins" <[email protected]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 7:48 PM > Subject: Re: For those who wants spec sheets before announcement > > > 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. > > > -- > 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. > -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs ---------------------- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13" Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- 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.
