Welcome back Tanya
I wouldn't discount the K20D, since you'd be upgrading from the starkist!
The K20D would be a major leap forward and you can get it for less money
than the K7.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tanya Love" <tanyal...@bigpond.com>
Subject: RE: A K7D for Fairygirl (Was Re: Fairygirl is in the house!)
Thanks Paul! I figured as such with the video - not "needing" it, but
there
has certainly been times, mainly on a personal level with my kids etc,
when
I've been out with them, camera over my shoulder and I've thought to
myself,
"oh, if only the *istD had a video capability" when they've done something
particularly cute. Plus the HD aspect and HDMI input is certainly
attractive.
With the Live Preview, I am the same, never having had one with the *istD
and that being the ONLY camera I have shot with in oh, about 6 years now!
I
don't see myself ever using it, as like I said, it is a battery sucker,
rather than anything else, especially with the viewfinder having 100%
coverage on the K-7. I just mainly wondered if anyone else had found that
it has an application that I hadn't already thought of that was
disadvantaged by it's slowness on that point.
Tan. :)
Paul wrote:
The video capability is nice, but it requires manual focus. However,
that's
not too much of a problem when using wide lenses in relatively good light.
I
bought a hood with diopter adjustment for the live view screen. That makes
manual focus fairly easy, even when moving. I think the HD video
capability
in combination with the excellent lenses would be useful for serious
applications. I've been thinking about trying to shoot a demo 30-second
commercial with it. For kid's birthdays and stuff like that, my Sony video
camera is a better choice.
I never use live preview mode and rarely shoot in live view, so I can't
offer any input there. I have used live view occasionally for framing in
situations where I couldn't get to the viewfinder, and I found it useful.
But I prefocused.
Paul
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