On 17 May 2011 12:50, Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Miserere <miser...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I am not a soccer mum and I love face detection. > > I am not a soccer mum either and I don't care for face detection... > Kind of "anonymous alcoholic" statement, you know... > > I don't think that my K-5 is doing too good with all of its AF points. > So I configured it to use only 5 of them - the cross pattern with the > central point, well, in the center. And I find that I often go to > center point only mode. This hasn't been happening with any of my > previous Pentax cameras. In LV mode it does have the face detection > but I turned it off. It is confusing if it/I have to choose from more > than one face in the frame, you know.
I didn't find the K-5's face-detection to work as well as that on the mirrorless cameras I've used it on. I suspect LiveView AF was not at the top of the priorities list of the K-5 team. > And consider, Miserere, I am somewhat a geek and I like gizmos... It's OK, Boris, you're amongst friends here :-) —M. \/\/o/\/\ --> http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.