You, also, expressed my thought very well, Mark. Jack
--- On Wed, 4/22/09, Mark Roberts <msrobert...@ysu.edu> wrote: > From: Mark Roberts <msrobert...@ysu.edu> > Subject: Re: 21th may is the day for the new Pentax DSLR. > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 10:42 AM > Bruce Walker wrote: > > > > One of the more important features in the K20D that > pushed me to upgrade from the K100Ds was being able to use > the PUF as a flash controller. Up until then I never used > the PUF and was considering gluing or taping it down so it > wouldn't pop up when I occasionally hit the button by > accident. :-) > > > > Now I'd greatly miss it too. > > I actually use the pop-up flash as a flash. It's been > invaluable for backpacking when I'm carrying minimal > gear or when there's no time to mount a flash before the > moment's gone. Both situations applied for this shot: > http://www.robertstech.com/pages/gfm_14.htm > > That bit of fill flash really helped the tame the > foreground shadow areas. (ist-D and FA-J 18-35, the latter > borrowed from Bill Owens for the hike) and the clouds were > moving/changing so quickly I only had a moment in which > everything came together. > > Of course, being the official GFM "Mountain Goat on > Crack", I want Pentax to keep the pop-up flash. If I > were a studio rat I'd probably want then to ditch it. > They can't please everyone, but I'm glad they've > pleased me rather than Bill Robb so far :-P > > > > > > -- > 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.
