On 4/25/2012 00:45, Larry Colen wrote:
Why do you say that? Granted I was just looking at the photos on the back LCD, but they looked pretty good.
That's why: http://www.fredmiranda.com/5DIII-D800/index_controlled-tests.html
That does make a difference.
Here is a tricky one for you, sir. Both 5Dm3 and D800 are presently approximately thrice as expensive as K-5. Are they three times better???
Pentax seems to have done a good job. My biggest gripe with the K-5s button layout is that I can't hit the "display button" with my right thumb, and have to use my left hand.
Well, yes. But it's been this way since *istD, so that a habit may have been developed here...
My biggest gripe with the buttons is that while the Fx button will put the camera into an occasionally useful mode, pressing it a second time won't put it back to the way I had it before, meaning that it's one button to go out of my default, but several presses to get it back to something generally useful.
Well, I find it one of the less useful features - these programmable buttons. There is one option that is extremely useful, but they mis-implemented it badly. You can program AF button to cancel AF while pressed. That would be excellent but in case of screw-driven lenses it doesn't retract the screwdriver - so you're literally screwed. Yet for DA* 16-50 it displays MF in the viewfinder and you're indeed in MF mode... Go figure...
As for Fx button - I keep on RAW/RAW+/once set up and try not to press it anyway...
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