Stan, Amen to the longer lenses and the tele converters. We need more of these. Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 17, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Tim Bray wrote: >> >> Smaller would be nice but you can only take that so far before the >> K-glass gets way out of balance with the body; the K-5 looks >> deliciously butch with the short extra-fat Sigma on. >> >> Once again, what should Pentax be working on? -T > > 1. I don't want smaller. It is hard to manage a large heavy lens on a tiny > camera body. I've tried it with my EP-L2. I don't have the K-5 yet but have > played with one a bit, and quickly realized that I would not be able to use > it comfortably, even with something like the 21mm, without adding the battery > grip. With my K-20 I can go either way, and tend to use the grip mostly with > larger lenses. > 2. Auto-focus will never be fast enough or precise enough, but that doesn't > mean that continued work should not go into that aspect of the system. > 3. Why should I have to manually adjust each lens to the camera to achieve > proper focus? Give me a firmware fix that evaluates the lens and develops a > unique solution for that lens. Allow me to edit it, just in case. > 4. I don't want a tethered camera. I want a camera with a high speed > Bluetooth type of transmitter/receiver that allows me to remotely control the > camera, and do on-the-fly auto downloads of images, without plugging in a > tether. Give me a transponder in a separate box to boost speed and distance > if need be, but no tethers! > 5. Quality GPS encoding into EXIF. Software options for setting defaults to > be used when satellite reception is insufficient for a good fix. > 6. More control over bracketing. When doing macro, for example, why can't I > bracket on depth of field (i.e., variations in f-stop) and let the camera > adjust shutter and/or ISO to maintain proper EV? (This idea stolen from my > brother. If there is already a way to do this, he and I would both love to > hear about it!) > 7. I would like to be able to chose whether the camera defaults to HSM vs. > screw-drive AF for any given lens. And to change that on the fly. (So that I > could use an HSM lens on an auto-focus-capable tele-extender.) > > Another thing the camera needs is lenses to put on the camera. The Pentax > vaunted backward compatibility has allowed them to get away with ignoring > their lens development in many areas, but they need to produce some modern > lenses already! > - DA* 250-600/5.6? > - DA* 600/4.0? > - DA 800/5.6? > Yes, I know that these would be big and heavy and expensive, but the option > for a special order, at least, should be there. > > And where are the DA 1.4 and DA 2.0 tele-extenders?!? > > stan > -- > 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.
