On Oct 30, 2010, at 1:16 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > Paul, you make some valid points. > > I should say that I experienced the "wow" of AF improvement transiting from > *istD to K10D. I think that given that I still find K10D's AF adequate or > sufficient for /my/ kind of shooting, makes the improvements of K7 less > visible. > > It may also be the case that my copy of K10D was somewhat above the average. > I never had any AF precision problems that I could discern. And the Katz Eye > screen I installed my-clumsy-self was spot on too, very much unlike the saga > I had with K7. > > I don't agree with you about the meter, though. It is good but it is far from > being spot on. It seems to consistently expose to the left.
"Consistently" is the key here. None of the other Pentax DSLRs have achieved anything close to consistent exposure. I frequently shoot with +0.3 exposure comp, so I suppose one could say it's consistently underexposing, but that's within the margin of error of personal taste in terms of a final rendering starting point. > But given the significantly better dark areas noise performance of the > camera, I just don't bother (lazy?) tweaking the meter with expo-comp to make > it expose to the right. > > Also, it could be that local light between, say April and October (inclusive) > is quite different than light that I saw in Chicago. Assuming you're closer > to Chicago light-wise than to me :-). > > Boris > > > On 10/30/2010 1:52 AM, paul stenquist wrote: >> Good read, Boris. Thanks for sharing your observations. Some >> interesting differences in my experience. First, I never use the >> electronic level. I find it a distraction. Second, I find the >> autofocus considerably better than any previous Pentax camera. I >> shoot a lot of action, and the K-7 locks on much better than my K20D. >> I shot a kiddy halloween parade today at Graces school and I don't >> think the autofocus missed on even a single shot of these moving >> subjects in somewhat low light. Finally, I think the exposure is >> close to spot on. A huge improvement over previous Pentax models. >> Paul > > -- > 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.
