Thank Bruce, I hope it delivers what I need, I'm getting busier and I really need AF to be more accurate and reliable.
On 6 February 2014 10:07, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > It does. Nail focus, that is. (My recent studio shoot, ambient room > light only -- between flashes that is -- which amounted to two CFLs in > the far corners and some window light, and not one out of focus shot > in 4 hours of shooting.) > > Congrats, Rob. You'll enjoy it. > > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Rob Studdert <[email protected]> wrote: >> Old thread, but just got my first K3. What the hell were they thinking >> re the Info button, concept is good, options provided are poorly >> thought out. Menu changes make sense on the whole I think, gone is the >> extended ISO range caper, but ISO 100 lowest? And what's with changing >> the position of the AF button on the body radically and leaving the AF >> button on the grip where the old one used to be :( The K5 design was >> great in the respect that you could flip from landscape to portrait >> mode using the grip and basically all the buttons were in essentially >> the same place. Goddamn this thing better nail focus. >> >> On 23 December 2013 01:26, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 21/12/2013 9:54 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: >>>> >>>> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Bill <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 20/12/2013 8:48 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> You're going through the exact same upgrade path as I. I'm still >>>>>> struggling with a few adaptations, but totally loving it and you will >>>>>> too. Eg: I had to turn off that annoyingly persistent Info screen, and >>>>>> I haven't found a way to call it up on demand, so I just have to live >>>>>> without I guess. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Don't you just press the Info button? >>>> >>>> >>>> Turns out I meant what they call the "Status Screen". There's no way >>>> to call that up quickly, ie in a button push. As Stan outlines: press >>>> Info, Info again, arrow over to Status Screen, OK. >>>> >>>> Not an operation I'm going to do on a whim, and certainly not while >>>> I'm in the middle of shooting. >>>> >>> >>> This is something they could fix easily by allowing the user to choose which >>> screen comes up when the info button is pressed. Right now it defaults to >>> the menu screen, they could just as easily make it default to the last >>> screen viewed (menu, status or level). The few quibbles I have with the K3 >>> relate to this sort of behaviour on the part of the camera. >>> >>> bill >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> >> >> >> -- >> Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) >> Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours >> Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio >> >> -- >> 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. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
