On Sat, Feb 16, 2013, Larry Colen wrote: > On Feb 16, 2013, at 9:04 AM, Aahz Maruch wrote: >> >> AFAICT, common wisdom is to set these values on the K-5/K-5 II: >> >> Highlight Correction on > > So far as I know, Highlight correction only affects the JPEGs, so it > doesn't have any effect on photos that you actually care enough about > to process correctly.
Weird, I could have sworn I saw something that said that highlight correction applies to RAW but shadow correction only applies to JPEGs. But now I can't find anything like that in any of the manuals. [...] Here's something I found: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-k-5/133189-anyone-using-expanded-dynamic-range-feature-your-k5.html Guess that'll teach me to trust dpreview.com as a source of information... ;-) >> Anyone want to argue against these? Any other defaults people recommend? >> >> One moderate annoyance I discovered while playing with John's K-5/60-250: >> the playback button is on the left side, which makes it awkward to reach >> with the right hand when holding the lens in the left (to review a photo >> immediately after taking it, especially with the camera up near my face). >> Larry suggests using digital preview, which would probably work, although >> that somewhat changes the habits I've built up over the years. Any other >> suggestions? > > My default is to show the blinkies on review so I can see where I'm > clipping or losing detail. > > I set the function button, next to the lens, to astrotrace so that > when I hit it accidentally, it doesn't put me into some mode that is > hard to get out of. Good ideas. > Also, the camera comes from the factory set to shooting JPEG, I lost a > lot of shots at burning man because I hadn't realized that, and when > I went to process my night photos, the data just wasn't in the files. > Fortunately, I mostly used my K-x at night rather than my freshly > repaired K20. Yeah, making sure acquisition is set to RAW+ is always one of the first things I do. (I'm new to RAW processing, so I want the JPEG backup for now, I'll make another post about RAW questions later.) > Turn off the focus acquisition beeps. You may not hear them, but they > are very annoying to anybody around when you are shooting. Right. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html -- 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.
