Once I've fully figured things out, I should probably right a complete review of it. But, here are a few more items that I've noticed:
1) The blue LED on the back is way too bright, and shines in your eye when you're trying to find the viewfinder at night. Stupid, stupid stupid, they should have pointed it up rather than back. At the very least they could use camera settings to note whether to shine it bright or dim. I put a little blue tape over it, which helps. 2) Can't set the focal length for shake reduction high enough for really long lenses. With normal shake reduction this isn't a huge issue. 3) It works well, but not perfectly. I don't know whether it is from not matching the focal length perfectly, or the sensor only operating linearly and not rotating. It will be interesting to see how well Adobe anti-smear software works at correcting that. If it's just a question of not setting things properly, they could do a trick like with white balance, where they look at the shot, detect the length and direction of the trails, and adjust things accordingly. 4) The user interface sucks. I blew too many shots because when taking a second shot I pressed the shutter, rather than pressing OK to take a picture, then pressing the shutter. If you want to look at a photo, you've got to go through a dozen button presses to get back to the take a picture with astrotracer screen. Likewise if you want to set something, like if you are bracketing a shot and want to change ISO. 5) Jupiter is bright enough to use for setting focus. 6) If I were to do a lot more of this I would need a seriously expensive tripod head. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
