> On 01 November 2015 at 20:10 "P.J. Alling" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 11/1/2015 2:34 PM, WILSON MICHAEL wrote: > >> 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. > > > I'd forgotten about that, it's on page 4 of the custom functions in the > K-5II menu. Item #25 Catch-in focus must be set to 2, (on). > > Now that you've reminded me I think it's the same on the K20D and the > *ist-D series of cameras as well.
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