On 16/04/2013 2:00 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Walt <ldott...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm surprised by how many people find [weight] an issue. I've always thought of
camera heft as a feature rather than a bug.
I walk my dog in the park every day. I only take my K20D along when
I've pre-decided it's "picture taking time". I should take it along
every walk, but I don't and weight is the decider. Well, also that the
dog doesn't actually get much of a walk when I'm shooting, but that's
secondary.
I might balk at that characterization if I ever had to lug around a
full-frame or medium format for any significant length of time. But, I will
say that the weight of the K20D is what made me prefer it to my K-x in every
situation other than very low light. Now that I've grown accustomed to
shooting with the K20D and my K-5, trying to use a lighter body or a P&S
feels like the thing is just going to float right out of my hands -- sort of
the way your feet feel after taking off a pair of ankle weights.
When I'm shooting, especially in studio, I don't notice the camera's
weight, and I agree that the heft is reassuring and even useful. But I
pay for it with sore wrists later on.
The one minor gripe I have [with the K-5]
is that it seems too easy to get it out of AF-S when using the 4-way
selection buttons on the back when I have the viewfinder up to my eye. I
can't count the number of times I've tried to switch focus points only to
discover that I'm scrolling through digital filters, etc. That is a bit
grating when you're trying to catch a bride and groom walking down the
aisle, among other things.
This is a major issue and suggests to me that there's not enough input
from working photographers and too much from the More Features Needed
people during UI design time. As soon as I first heard about the
focus-point selection issues my shoulders slumped. I'm quite content
to leap-frog the K-7 & K-5 line in the hopes that Pentax releases a
body with better real-world usability down the road. I just don't need
more cases where the camera fights me when I'm trying to use it to
catch fleeting moments.
--
-bmw
This is something that was broken in the K7, fixed with the first
firmware update, and then broken again with the K5 (and not fixed with a
firmware update),
bill
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