On Oct 5, 2013, at 7:40 AM, Steve Cottrell <co...@seeingeye.tv> wrote:
> On 5/10/13, Eric Weir, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> A question about the X1/20. When I went through Heathrow on my way home >> I checked out the X20 in the duty free shop. Between us, neither myself, >> what seemed to be a camera-wise customer, nor a clerk who seemed to know >> his stuff could figure out how to focus manually. I assume it can be done. > > Basically you select manual on the front button (MF) Thanks for the explanation of manual focusing on the x10, Cotty. > The one thing I would say this camera (and the X20) are not very good at > is manual focus. It is fiddly and slow. If you are looking for good > manual focus control, perhaps look elsewhere. > > That said, the AF is extremely good - and supposed to be even better on > the X20. I never use manual focus on my X10, and so far haven't needed > to. Even in extreme macro, the AF locks on and is accurate. I generally > focus and recompose. So - a half press with subject in the middle of the > frame, then recompose, then a full press of the shutter. Works well. > > But a camera liker this is obviously limited. We're probably similar in > that we both grew up with good old manual focus lenses, and actually > that's what works for us and we enjoy using them. Not to say autofocus > doesn't have its place, but for me, I have no need right now. Well, my first camera was a K1000, but I'm still learning to focus. And I want to continue. I think I remember someone, I think Godfrey, talking about getting good enough that you could get focus to just "snap into place" without a lot of back-and-forth "homing in". I don't know if he meant to suggest that was possible in action situations. If so it's where I'd like to get. That said, and while I'm leaning toward a K-5 as my new camera---all of the quality I can afford right now, or am ever likely to---the X10/X20, with its manual focus limitations s certainly appealing. > For my own personal photography, I want studious concentration and just > a few lenses I know and can use to my liking. But I also want it reduced > in size. I don't want a camera bag full of stuff. I want one camera *in > my pocket* and one over my shoulder. And that's it!! My aspiration, too. Simple and as small as possible. While it had it's limitations---I would like to have brought some scenes up closer---I really liked going with just the A28/2.8 and *istDS on my trip. The last half of my walk I literally had the camera in-hand the whole day. I found it to be the most convenient and the most comfortable way of carrying the camera. Regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "You will be needed in the movement when you realize that you are not needed in the movement." - Chris Crass -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
