Sure, neither will k200D users IMO. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:37 PM, John Francis <jo...@panix.com> wrote: > > I very much doubt that us poor K10D users will see a firmware > upgrade, though. They want me to upgrade to a K20D, I'm sure. > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 03:43:38PM -0400, Ken Waller wrote: >> FWIW - >> I upgraded my K20D a few days ago & got to try a few lenses on it >> yesterday to see if I could notice any difference in focus operation. >> None of this is objective as I didn't do any before & after testing but I >> can say that subjectively the K20D (with version 1.03) SEEM to focus >> noticeably quicker (both near & far focusing ) with my 300mm f4.5 FA & >> 16-50mm f2.8 DA* lens, as compared to focusing with version 1.0.. >> >> Kenneth Waller >> http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margus M?nnik" <mar...@eol.ee> >> >> Subject: Re: K20D firmware update >> >> >> I can second that. >> Yesterday I finally had both time and weather to play with my long focus >> lenses. Shot some 30 minutes with ver 1.01 to accustom, then upgraded >> the firmware to ver 1.03 and continued to shoot. I did expected some >> tiny difference at best, but wow, I'm really impressed! >> DA*300 "flying seagull hit rate" improved at least three times! Also my >> FA100-300 (that I rather avoided in the past because of unsteady >> focusing) feels now much faster as it "hunts" times less than before. >> >> BR, Margus >> >> >> >> Tim ?sleby wrote: >>> I'm pretty sure it has an impact on AF. >>> >>> Yesterday was waiting for a White-throated Dipper. While waiting I >>> played a bit with the AF at the stream. No way I could get the damn >>> thing to lock except when trying at some rocks. After wards I did the >>> upgrade. >>> >>> Today I sat by the same river, with same lens, at exactly same spot. >>> The light was very similar. When retesting, it focused just as we >>> should expect it to do. Every time I tried it focused, and it did >>> pretty fast to. Impressive :-) >> . >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> 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 > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. >
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