True. I've made (sometimes good) use of that feature. Mostly because my fingers tend to hit multiple buttons at once anyway.
Damned teensy controls. Maybe that new Fuji is the right thing for me after all. Sometimes I wish I had a camera that worked like my old Praktica LTL. On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > Just one additional point that some may not be aware of (owners will > again need to confirm this for me) but the 4 way buttons on the K-3 > are allegedly 8-way buttons: If you depress two consecutive buttons at > the same time you move diagonally. > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Stanley Halpin > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Jan 28, 2014, at 6:29 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> on 2014-01-27 23:47 Stanley Halpin wrote >>>> You can zoom all the way (10x?) and still do focus peaking. Not sure when >>>> that would be relevant. When you zoom, obviously you are only seeing a >>>> small portion of the scene, so either you compose with the critical >>>> element in the absolute center, or you spend time moving the focal point >>>> around in order to do fine Focus Peaking on that element. Maybe in some >>>> kind of macro or still life or product shots. Anyway, my quick look says >>>> it would work, my quick reaction is that I am not sure it would be worth >>>> the hassle. I'll have to try it out next time I do landscape stuff from a >>>> tripod... >>> >>> on my partner's older Panasonic GH1, which doesn't have focus peaking, you >>> can easily move the area that is zoomed for manual focusing, so you don't >>> have to center the desired critical focus target >>> >>> can't the K3 do that? >>> >> >> Yes, you can zoom and move the zoomed window around using the 4-way buttons. >> Which creates two potential problems IMHO. First is that it is a time >> consuming and for me frustrating process to drag a tiny window around trying >> to find the exact spot where you absolutely need critically sharp focus. So >> zoom in partially, move the window, zoom some more. I am glad to have the >> capability, I will probably use it to advantage in macro applications, but >> it will take quite a bit of practice before I am comfortable with it. The >> other possible issue is that all of this button pushing may well joggle the >> camera unless you have it locked down to the max on a rock-solid tripod. The >> movement of course will mean that you need to start over... >> >> One aspect I don't care for: >> I would like to be using a mix of autofocus and manual. So if I lose my way >> while searching for the key point of focus, a quick tap on the AF button >> will give me the camera's focus solution to start (over) from. Kinda like >> the green button will get you back to the programmed exposure solution. >> However, the LV focus-peaking mechanism doesn't seem to remember how far I >> was zoomed or what portion of the scene I had under the zoom window. So the >> AF-button tap takes me all the way back to the full-view start point. I >> would like an option to have the zoom information retained in memory until I >> tell it I want to go back to start. Like happens now if you zoom in during >> image review, then advance to another image. There may be such an option, I >> haven't found it. >> >> stan >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs > look like photographs. > ~ Alfred Stieglitz > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
