Stan, you have the programmers to "blame" :-). On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
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