Moin, If you don't use the automatic modus, which I knew before. Which modes are you using for your daily pictures?
Full manual or do you use something in between or do you change it from picture to picture or more precise from location to location. Thomas 2011/4/19 John Francis <[email protected]>: > > 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. > -- 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.
