Does a K-5 "need" a green mode? Not really. Is it of benefit? I think so, yes.
I never use it myself. But there have been a number of occasions where I hand my camera to somebody else for them to get a few shots. That's when I appreciate the "idiot proofing" of the green mode. It's not 100% safe - a really talented idiot will still find a way to mess things up. But, in my experience, somebody who thinks they know what they are doing, but who isn't fully conversant with the way my particular camera operates, is far more likely to get things wrong than somebody who expects all cameras to act like a point-and-shoot. Not everybody wants the daunting interface of a K-5/K-10D/whatever - that's why my wife has an Olympus E-PL1 rather than an E-P2, and why she never takes it out of full-on automatic mode. But until we got that camera putting one extra "green mode" setting on the dial was a lot simpler than making me carry a second body in case my wife wanted to take a few photographs. Nothing's perfect, of course - the most recent screwup was last year, when the full-time-focus-adjust of the DA* lenses caused a reasonably competent photographer to de-focus several shots when he really wanted to adjust the framing slightly but played with the wrong control. -- 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.
