Re: AF-assist of the Pentax *ist D AF

2004-08-13 Thread Mark Roberts
Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >To be completely fait, I should point out that lots of "Rebel-class" I think I meant to type "To be completely fair", but I suppose it could have been some kind of French Freudian slip... -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com

Re: AF-assist of the Pentax *ist D AF

2004-08-13 Thread Mark Roberts
"Steve Desjardins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There is a funny commercial for some battery that has a stadium full of >people at night and the flashes are all going off. Eventually, there is >only one flash going off and this indicates the superiority of the >batter. Of course, all of these fla

Re: AF-assist of the Pentax *ist D AF

2004-08-13 Thread Mark Roberts
Kostas Kavoussanakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Mark Roberts wrote: > >> The "Rebel Flash People"* are the ones you'll see in the stands at the >> Olympic games, using flash to get shots of athletes on the track 200 >> yards away. > >The Canon does not sell the Rebel in Greec

Re: AF-assist of the Pentax *ist D AF

2004-08-13 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Mark Roberts wrote: > The "Rebel Flash People"* are the ones you'll see in the stands at the > Olympic games, using flash to get shots of athletes on the track 200 > yards away. The Canon does not sell the Rebel in Greece; it's the 300D, I guess :-) And I don't think many for

Re: AF-assist of the Pentax *ist D AF

2004-08-13 Thread Mark Roberts
"Peter J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >graywolf wrote: > >> Because people who buy Rebels don't even know you can take photos >> without flash? >> >That's good, I wish I'd said that. The "Rebel Flash People"* are the ones you'll see in the stands at the Olympic games, using flash to get s

Re: AF-assist of the Pentax *ist D AF

2004-08-12 Thread Peter J. Alling
That's good, I wish I'd said that. graywolf wrote: Because people who buy Rebels don't even know you can take photos without flash? -- Brendan wrote: Pushing the rtf down works fine, also remember the *ISTD will focus lower than most other cameras with out aid. Now why don't they complain about t

Re: AF-assist of the Pentax *ist D AF

2004-08-12 Thread Alan Chan
Because only Pentaxans speak the truth. ;-) Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan Pushing the rtf down works fine, also remember the *ISTD will focus lower than most other cameras with out aid. Now why don't they complain about this with the rebel!

Re: AF-assist of the Pentax *ist D AF

2004-08-12 Thread Brendan
Pushing the rtf down works fine, also remember the *ISTD will focus lower than most other cameras with out aid. Now why don't they complain about this with the rebel! --- Joe Wilensky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These have been Pentax's standard instructions ever > since the SF1/SFX > flash th

Re: AF-assist of the Pentax *ist D AF

2004-08-12 Thread Joe Wilensky
These have been Pentax's standard instructions ever since the SF1/SFX flash that had the infrared focusing beam built in -- if you want to use it for focusing but not for flash, push the flash back down after focusing but while still pressing the shutter release halfway. A better method is via

AF-assist of the Pentax *ist D AF

2004-08-11 Thread Jens Bladt
www.dpreview says: The other disadvantage is that there appears to be no way to stop the flash from firing once up so you can't for instance use the flash for AF assist and then take a normal long exposure (without pushing the flash back down again manually). http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/pentaxi