Photokina opens nothing beyond the already announced items on display.

2012-09-19 Thread P. J. Alling
So far my snark at Ricewhine stands. I wish I could say it makes me feel good but I had really hoped for a 24mp APS-C DSLR, a FF was just to much to hope for. -- Don't lose heart, they might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthly search. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Photokina opens nothing beyond the already announced items on display.

2012-09-19 Thread Bruce Walker
I'm with you there. A jump in rez of that amount would be welcome, and would continue to justify my investment in only DA and DA* lenses. Anyways, so far my K20D isn't stopping me from just shutting up and shooting. :-) On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:08 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com

Re: Photokina opens nothing beyond the already announced items on display.

2012-09-19 Thread DagT
A 24MP APS-C without AA-filter would have been nice. DagT Den 19. sep. 2012 kl. 20:03 skrev Bruce Walker: I'm with you there. A jump in rez of that amount would be welcome, and would continue to justify my investment in only DA and DA* lenses. Anyways, so far my K20D isn't stopping me from

Re: Photokina opens nothing beyond the already announced items on display.

2012-09-19 Thread Paul Stenquist
But improved autofocus will be even nicer. If it's truly a step up, the K5 IIs will take the lead spot ahead of my K5, and the current backup, a K7, will go on ebay. Paul On Sep 19, 2012, at 2:11 PM, DagT li...@thrane.name wrote: A 24MP APS-C without AA-filter would have been nice. DagT

Re: Photokina opens nothing beyond the already announced items on display.

2012-09-19 Thread Larry Colen
On Sep 19, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: But improved autofocus will be even nicer. If it's truly a step up, the K5 IIs will take the lead spot ahead of my K5, and the current backup, a K7, will go on ebay. I recognize that I tend to take photos in conditions that are a bit

Re: Photokina opens nothing beyond the already announced items on display.

2012-09-19 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:31:43PM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: Beyond that, faster accurate focus in stupid low light would really help. From some of the reports I've seen, this is one area where the K-5 II has significant improvements. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Photokina opens nothing beyond the already announced items on display.

2012-09-19 Thread Paul Stenquist
On Sep 19, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: On Sep 19, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: But improved autofocus will be even nicer. If it's truly a step up, the K5 IIs will take the lead spot ahead of my K5, and the current backup, a K7, will go on ebay.

Re: Photokina opens nothing beyond the already announced items on display.

2012-09-19 Thread Bruce Walker
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: On Sep 19, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: One feature that would really help me would be different exposure metering modes, one where I could say to not meter on the bright back lighting,

Re: Photokina opens nothing beyond the already announced items on display.

2012-09-19 Thread George Sinos
Paul and Bruce have given great advice. You also might find it helpful to de-couple focus from the shutter button and use the back focus button. Once you focus on something, the camera will stay focused at that distance, eliminating the camera's need to re-focus every time you touch the shutter

Re: Photokina opens nothing beyond the already announced items on display.

2012-09-19 Thread Igor Roshchin
Wed Sep 19 15:31:43 EDT 2012 Larry Colen wrote: Beyond that, faster accurate focus in stupid low light would really help. Dancers just are not considerate enough to only move perpendicular to the line of focus. I feel for you Larry! Those damn dancers! Shoot them! ;-) Igor -- PDML

Re: Photokina opens nothing beyond the already announced items on display.

2012-09-19 Thread Igor Roshchin
Larry Colen lrc at red4est.com Wed Sep 19 15:31:43 EDT 2012 On Sep 19, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: But improved autofocus will be even nicer. If it's truly a step up, the K5 IIs will take the lead spot ahead of my K5, and the current backup, a K7, will go on ebay. I

Re: Photokina opens nothing beyond the already announced items on display.

2012-09-19 Thread Larry Colen
On Sep 19, 2012, at 12:52 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: On Sep 19, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: On Sep 19, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: But improved autofocus will be even nicer. If it's truly a step up, the K5 IIs will take the lead spot ahead of my

Re: Photokina opens nothing beyond the already announced items on display.

2012-09-19 Thread Larry Colen
On Sep 19, 2012, at 1:40 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: Larry Colen lrc at red4est.com Wed Sep 19 15:31:43 EDT 2012 On Sep 19, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: Often suggested technique to deal with those cases is to set the AF to use the central point. That can be done for centered