On 12/19/2010 12:38 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
This sounds like Larry's P&S situation, but with a twist. I was at a
family gathering yesterday when my young niece handed me her newly
acquired K-x (my recommendation, btw) and asked sweetly why her shots
were so dark. I have a K100Ds and a K20D, both of which I'm pretty
familiar with, but I wasn't prepared for the K-x at all.
I managed to undo negative exposure comp -- I think! -- and I cranked
up the ISO since she had only the 18-55 kit lens. That helped, but I
bet she was getting some serious shake in those shots under the usual
indoor crappy incandescent lights. I loaned her my spare 540FGZ flash
and she had a great time with that.
But here's a question for the K-x owners: with no viewfinder focus
confirmation points how on earth do you figure out what the thing
auto-focused on? I was trying to verify that I had altered the
settings properly and I felt so useless staring though the viewfinder
and getting no feedback at all. It seems like such a P&S interface,
and I mean that in the most pejorative possible way.
Oh, and what's with the "image cannot be displayed" BS? While
reviewing images, every so often we'd get that message over a black
screen. She had no clue and I was no better off. Has the K-x decided
the image wasn't up to HCB standards and censored it?
Sounds like a card read/write error. Could those images be copied off
the card later?
-bmw
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