On 11/2/2015 8:17 AM, John wrote:
On 11/1/2015 4:46 PM, P.J. Alling wrote:
On 11/1/2015 3:42 PM, WILSON MICHAEL wrote:
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.
Goes back to the Z1-p, at least.
I was talking about enabling it in a menu, did the PZ-1p have a menu
setting?
It had *some* menu settings. I don't know if you could set up trap focus
in them.
Browsing through the manual it appears trap focus was set automagically
by using a manual lens in Single AF mode.
It seems that given a chance to put something into a menu, no software
engineer can resist. It might make sense if you could use an auto focus
lens in manual focus mode and set it to trap focus, but that doesn't
seem to be an option. In manual focus mode you don't get trap focus.
Without that, the menu item enabling of trap focus when the camera is
set to auto focus, with a manual focus lens mounted, seems redundant.
(Damn that was a complicated sentence, but I'm to lazy to simplify it).
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