Huh. I never had a reason to look at the K-5 etc pictures with their captions showing where each of the buttons are - I figured I knew all of that. So if the cameras have a sound capability, why haven't we seen functions that would allow a voice-recorded tag on images, or spoken warnings. Why can't I use the O-GPS1 unit to give me driving directions - it already has a navigation feature. And in case anyone thinks I am serious, look at the thread on divergence and simplicity. I disagree with the author's examples in several instances but agree with the basic point that feature clutter is not a good thing.
I am still baffled by the whole video thing and haven't been able to think of a single instance where I would want my DSLR to record video, much less sound. I have owned and used video cameras in the past, and if I wanted to shoot video again the last device I would consider for that purpose would be a DSLR. First choice would be a video camera. stan On Oct 27, 2013, at 8:25 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote: > Stan, your K5 and K20 have built in speakers as well. Shoot a movie, play it > back, and press your ear close to the holes i the body that are not the mic. > > On Oct 23, 2013, at 21:15 , Stan Halpin wrote: > >> Ken - I have started into the K-3 manual Darren posted. It looks exactly >> like the pdf versions of K10, K20, K5, & K5ii manuals that I have used >> before. Same layout, same level of detail on descriptions of e.g. menu >> functions, etc. And the "What is in the box?" page shows that the hardcopy >> manual is included. >> One thing that strikes me so far is how much more prominent the >> video-related functions are. And I had not realized that it has a built-in >> speaker! Verbal alerts? "Hey dummy, the flash won't work until you turn it >> on!" I'll read more tomorrow. . . >> >> stan > > > > > Joseph McAllister > pentax...@mac.com > -- 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.
