The K-5 (at least the ii version) and maybe earlier bodies have a feature I just discovered during the workshop last week. The instructor was quite adamant about the "SR OFF" during our shots using tripods, which was most of the time. He reminded everyone to turn SR back on when we were doing our handheld shots on the boat tour of the Pictured Rocks. So early in my set up for the first field trip I dutifully went deep into the menu system to turn off the SR, muttering the whole time about how I missed the SR lever from the back of K-20 and earlier models. But when I went to turn it back on for the boat trip later in the week, the menu selection was grayed out. I couldn't turn SR back on. Eventually I found the "problem."
The working assumption apparently is that if you have a camera on tripod, you of course will be using a remote to trigger the shutter. As in, why would you mess with a tripod if you are going to jerk the camera around by manually pushing the shutter release? So, if you have the remote firing activated, (and therefore you obviously must be on a tripod), SR is automagically OFF. I didn't need to worry about messing with the menus at all! Just adjust the firing mode with the buttons on the back; Remote Firing ON = SR OFF, Shutter Button ON = SR ON. If you have Shutter Button ON, you can still go into the menus and turn off SR if you want to and then it stays off no matter which firing mode you use. stan On Aug 17, 2013, at 10:54 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > > > On 8/17/2013 22:08, Bruce Walker wrote: >> Both good, Ann. > > Thanks, BRuce > I think there was another reason for disabling SR that is mentioned in the > K-5 manual but can't remember what it was :-( > anyway - I have it back on > > ann >> >> I'm unconvinced about the necessity of disabling SR when tripod'ing. I >> haven't seen any difference or bad effects. > > >> >> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Whose world is it anyway... >>> >>> http://annsan.smugmug.com/On-the-Road-or-On-Foot/Learning-the-K-5/30564911_mcsJ8s/1/2706468485_NBQPQRB/Large >>> >>> >>> >>> http://annsan.smugmug.com/On-the-Road-or-On-Foot/Learning-the-K-5/30564911_mcsJ8s/1/2706469093_t84NhsS/Large >>> >>> I got in for $5.00 because I have a friend with a membership and >>> she was going to a film there... haven't been since the HCB >>> exhibit a while back... >>> >>> Still stumbling around with the K-5 I had accidentally left the shake >>> reduction off after shooting stuff on my tripod at home - at least that's my >>> excuse >>> >>> both manual everything with the 28mm >>> >>> ann >>> >>> -- >>> 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. -- 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.
