Jack, not the AF Mode, but rather which mode the 4-way controller buttons are in, where one mode is "push the AF point around" and the other is to select WB, Drive, Flash and colour spaces and processing.
And I mean on the K-3. On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Jack Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > Gather you're referring to the K-5. K-3 indicates the AF mode by size and > color coding the various settings. > I'll check the K-5. Haven't held it for awhile. > > Jack > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bruce Walker" <[email protected]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 10:37:32 AM > Subject: Re: Help! problem with K-5 settings... GOT IT - > > Does anyone know if there's an annunciator -- icon, indicator, > whathaveyou -- that will tell me at a glance what mode the 4-way > control is in? All I can do now is experimentally poke a button and > see what happens, then if it's wrong press the mode switch button and > try again to verify. If it's right, hit the opposite button to put the > AF point back. > > Really a PITA. This is an ugly wart in the K-3 UI design, as far as > I'm concerned. > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: >> Bruce I do shoot RAW - but that made me lazy in getting down more quickly to >> what was causing the problem -- >> >> I think I must have accidentally hit the menu button as you had done for >> starters.. >> >> ann >> >> >> On 4/16/2015 11:26, Bruce Walker wrote: >>> >>> Ann, I'll describe what has happened to me a couple of times and this >>> might explain how you got into a funny colour space. >>> >>> I mainly use the 4-way arrows to move the AF point around. I use them >>> that way much more than I use the menu options (Drive, WB, Flash, >>> etc.), so I leave the 4-way mode in "AF points" by default. >>> >>> But once in a while I accidentally leave the 4-way in menu mode, so >>> when I next pick up the camera and start fiddling with the 4-way while >>> looking through the viewfinder I am surprised that the AF points don't >>> move. Then I go "Duh!" and press the 4-way mode button to fix it. >>> >>> Meanwhile though, while I was hitting the 4-way buttons in the wrong >>> mode I was randomly setting things and causing mayhem. The last time I >>> made this error I accidentally set the colour space to Bleach Bypass >>> and my preview LCD images looked totally bizarre. I was much relieved >>> when I unloaded the shots into Lightroom and discovered they were all >>> okay and I quickly figured out the problem. >>> >>> Luckily I shoot raw only so no harm was done. Another reason to only shoot >>> raw! >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Ok I found where to get it back to the correct stuff.. >>>> >>>> thanks, Philip - >>>> >>>> Can't imagine how I got it messed up >>>> interstingly, though, the incorrectness was very fitting for one of my >>>> shots >>> >>> >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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.
