> On 01 November 2015 at 16:45 "P.J. Alling" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 11/1/2015 10:50 AM, John wrote: > > On 10/31/2015 9:08 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> > >> > >> knarf wrote: > >>> Fun portrait: Nice detail, great colour, focus on front eye, > >>> technically very good but that cut off lip is a bother. > >> > >> Yeah, remember my mentioning having trouble with it locking focus. She > >> kept walking towards me and by the time it locked focus, she was well > >> within comfortable range for that lens. Oh well, I still think it's a > >> fun shot. > >> > >> I later remembered another difference between the K-3 and the K-5, the > >> sound of the shutter. I don't know if the K-3 is louder, but the sound > >> is "sharper". > >> > > > > I wonder what ever happened to that "trap focus" feature some Pentax > > cameras used to have where you could pre-focus & hold down the shutter > > button and the shutter would fire when the subject reached focus? > > > > > > Trap focus still works, in manual focus mode, on the K-5II, I assume > that it would work with the K-3 as well.
Yes; either an af lens with the body in mf mode or a mf lens. There is a setting (do not release shutter unless in focus) that needs to be set correctly for the process to work or the shutter trips when you press the button. -- 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.
