On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I just don't see the point of the K-01. I mean, how the hell are you >> supposed to use it with anything longer than (say) 150mm lenses? With a >> DSLR you brace the camera against your hand/head with the other had >> holding the lens and elbow braced against the body. How are you meant to >> hold all this away from your face while trying to compose?? > > This is my biggest concern with the LCD screen. That and since I hit 50 it's > very easy for things like LCD screens to fall in that magic range that are > too far for me to focus on without my glasses, and too near for me to focus > on with my glasses. I wear varifocal glasses and have no difficulty seeing using an LCD for focusing and framing. And of course the K-01 does support autofocus AND image stabilization so with a change in how you handle the camera, and some practice, you can do some amazing things with an LCD viewfinder.. Of course, the lack of an eye-level viewfinder makes it less handy for hand-held use of very long lenses. 150mm is quite a long focal length on APS-C format ... I usually find that 135mm is about my limit for quality hand-held results (sans image stabilization...) and I'm much more comfortable with 90mm. This photo was made manually focusing and framing using the LCD with the GXR-M fitted with 90mm lens: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25268645/on_travel_2011/assets/images-1/s22.b.jpeg It's about 1/4 of the total 12 Mpixel frame captured. The original is very sharp and well detailed, some of that's lost in the down-rez for the web. For longer lenses, I use a tripod ... http://homepage.mac.com/godders/GXR-M_Nikkor-200mm-03.jpg Ricoh GXR-M fitted with EVF and Micro-Nikkor 200mm on tripod. I often find that it is easier and more accurate when fitted to the tripod to ignore the EVF and use the LCD ... but the EVF is useful when I want to use a lower camera position. > This is a camera designed for people who are used to taking photos with cell > phones. That statement says more about your bias, Larry, than it does about the camera or its intended audience. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
