Everything was exactly as I'd originally programmed it, except P mode.
I find P mode to be incredibly useful most of the time it's pretty much
the Swiss Army Knife of Pentax camera modes. Adjust the aperture dial
and aperture priority, ditto for the shutter dial. Press the ISO button
and the green button simultaneously and Auto ISO engages and now you're
in TAv mode, I think anyway, there may be differences but I pretty much
never use TAv mode.
On 5/3/2014 6:20 AM, Zos Xavius wrote:
I rarely use P, but I'm pretty sure I was playing with it the other
day on my K-5 IIs (which I just bought this week! woohoo!). Lemme
check........
Mine is working as it should and I have my dials configured exactly
like yours. Play with it some more. Do the dials work in other modes?
I would dive into the menu and reset the camera if it were me having
this problem. Let me know if you discover anything. It should be
working fine for you.
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 6:05 AM, P.J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote:
So yesterday I take out the K-5II, with the FA 43mm, just to have make sure
that nothing exciting happens anywhere around me. I make sure the mode dial
is set to Hyperprogram, and low I actually see something that I want to
photograph. Camera comes to eye, and I attempt to adjust the aperture, and
nothing happens. Shutter speed nothing happens. WTF?
The moment of photographic greatness passes, and I didn't snap the shot.
Check the mode dial did I set the camera to the green mode by accident? No
it's still on P. Huh. Now I'm a bit worried, is the camera malfunctioning?
So I start checking functions, well I can change AF points and exposure
bias, functions unavailable in green mode.
Still stumped. So I dive into the menu and check the e-dial programming, I
initially programed the M, P, Av, Tv and X, the modes I'm most likely to
use, So that the rear dial sets the shutter speed and the front dial sets
the aperture and the Green button resets to program line.
Needless to say, once that's done I don't need to change that again. When I
set up the K20D like that over 4 years ago I never had to change it again.
As an aside, I'd like to set the unused dial in Av, Tv, and X to give direct
access to a setting I'd find useful, but it seems Pentax doesn't allow what
I'd really want, so I settle for everything else just more or less working
the same, with those dials disabled. I don't use Tav and Sv modes enough
(ever really), to actually reprogram them, and in B I have plenty of time
setting up so the actual functions of the e-dials don't need muscle memory.
As an aside to the aside, I also miss the one touch auto bracketing button
from the K20D but I didn't use it often enough to carp about it, and it took
me a bit of time to figure out how I ended up in auto ISO when I hadn't
intended, I wasn't even sure how to get there intentionally since the
explicit menu item on the ISO menu the K20D had isn't there either.
To make a long story short(er), for some unknown reason the P mode e-dial
programming seems to have set itself to having both e-dials an the green
button disabled in P mode.
The settings for e-dials in the other modes didn't change, only P mode. Has
any one else had that happen? I'd thing the Dog was messing with me but he
doesn't have opposable thumbs.
The closest thing I've had happen to this is shooting the *ist-Ds in
freezing cold weather, after about 20 minutes outside all the shooting
settings were reset to the defaults, probably because of a voltage
fluctuation, and I ended up shooting a bunch of shots in Jpeg not RAW before
I noticed. Only time I'd ever had that happen and I'm sure it was because
the batteries weren't supplying enough power.
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