I should receive my copy tomorrow, your posts made the 5 week wait for the postman unbearable. Forecast is cloudy and rainy for the next week... My biggest tripod should point the contraption rock solid to the (cloudy) sky...
Toine On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
