On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 02:20:52AM -0600, Christine Aguila wrote: > Very cool! Congrats on the K-5. I used the grip on the K-10 & 20, but never > got around to buying it for the K-7&5. I'm finding I really don't have the > urge to use it. I really don't want to add the weight. I always advocated > for a battery grip, but with the 7&5, I'm less inclined to do so. Maybe try > the k-5 without the grip for a while--see what you think? Cheers, Christine
I've got used to having the extra shutter release for portriat orientation; if I use a camera without the grip I have to make a conscious effort to find the shutter release (and making adjustments with the camera to my eye is far less convenient). I did take the grip off my *ist-D to make a walk-around outfit (with the 18-55 kit lens). But a lot of the time with the K-5 I'm using larger, heavier lenses such as the 60-250 (and the 80-200 before that), so the extra weight isn't too much of an issue. Plus the fact that I like the extra battery capacity as a backup (although with the K-5 that's nowhere near as much of an issue as with the *ist-D, which could go through a set of batteries in maybe a quarter of the time those in the K-5 last. The storage slot for an extra SD card is a benefit, too. -- 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.
