With long exposures, the noise reduction applied by te camera will slow it down quite much (same with the D) and BTW will degrade quality at the same time.
Deactivate the NR when shooting long exposure is really really mandatory. 2007/1/29, jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My K10D takes a long time (10-20 seconds) to come up with preview image and > saving to SD card after taking a long exposure (all above 15 seconds). > Camera was in hyper manual mode and I was guessing the exposure times. > Is this normal or is there some user error involved (ie I don't know what I > is doing). > I noticed this while taking pics of a comet (yes finally saw it). > pics were taken with the original firmware. Haven't tried the updated > firmware yet. > > Apologies if this has been discussed earlier as i missed it and am to lazy to > find it :) > > James > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille ---------------------- *ist-D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
