On 9/28/2011 3:18 PM, Tom C wrote:
From: steve harley<p...@paper-ape.com>
on 2011-09-28 11:32 William Robb wrote
Which default will give Pentax the greater frequency of repair requests that
require significant tech time?
1) You mount a non A series lens and the camera bricks.
2) You mount a non A series lens and the camera gives wildly incorrect
exposures?
in the software industry, this is called "support"; do you really think Pentax
(or Ricoh) spends much or thinks much about support? if support were a big
concern i'd think it would be option (3) ? Pentax would have done usability
tests and adjusted the design accordingly
As a software developer, this is probably why I find the F-- message
combined with the illogical (to me) default so onerous. It could have
easily said, "Set CF 37 to enable use of this lens" or "Use CF menu 6
to enable use of this lens". Even if it said "F37" that would be a
tiny hint.
To put F-- and nothing else is plain sloppy, lazy, and almost a disservice.
If it would have done either of the first two messages above I would
have been on my way in under a minute.
Apparently, the only UIs worse than the one on Pentax DSLRs, are the UIs
on any other camera.
The problem I have with the Pentax firmware is that it wasn't optimized
for someone with my photographic interests. It seems as if it was
optimized for beginners used to point and shoot cameras. I'd love for
them to have a "pro mode" UI, that optimizes for shooting in RAW, and
possibly drops almost any "hand holding mode" for user selectable modes.
This isn't as big of an issue on the K-5 as it is with the K-x, where
most of the dial modes are totally useless to me, especially since I
have no idea what they do "under the hood", and if I don't know what is
actually happening, rather than what problem it is supposed to solve,
I'm not going there.
Tom C.
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