On 08/04/07, Thibouille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Rob ;) > > I did not notice any problem with WB except the need to manually > specify Tungsten when needed. Other than that it offers far more > tweaking possibilities than any other cameras I've seen.
Hi Thibouille, It's the interface that's my gripe, not the function per se, tweaking is fine but really I don't trust the rear screen cal and in most cases the ambient light prevents it from being remotely useful for colour appraisal. The way I prefer to work is by using fixed WB and sampled WB and not being able to glance down at the screen to see what WB is selected is a pain. I do know it's available on the rear LCD by pressing the info button but I think it should have been primary information as are the majority of other indicators shown in the top LCD. The *ist D WB selector was decried by some but it's better to use than the K10D implementation in my opinion and the *ist D WB system never left me wanting in over 20k of images so it must have been OK (I virtually never used AWB on the *ist D) > About Auto-Iso and P mode: What is your custom setting for Program > mode? Speed, depth,MTF or normal? Maybe it has an influence (I did not > check). Unfortunately not. > Maybe using SV or TAV mode would be a valuable alternative to using P > mode with Auto ISO? Personnaly I don't really the point in using those > two together. If I really want certain AV/TV setting, TAV is there > exactly for this. And SV + program bias if ISO is critical. > > Well that's how I see it. Too much fiddling around for me, I tend to work in Av and manual and on the odd occasion Tv. In TAv and Sv modes I just get distracted from making photos. > About Viewfinder rotation: did not notice specific problem but indeed > (just like my ist-d) ensor and viewfinder are never exactly aligned so > if horizontal placement is critical I shoot one and check on the LCD > with max zoom and correct till I'm satisfied. Takes time but works > well. Of course, would be better if aligned correctly. Indeed, I do thing close to 1 degree out for the finder frame is a bit excessive though, most people can detect well under a 1 degree rotation of a picture hanging on a wall. > I don't shoot RAW+Jpeg anymore. I takes card space and if I need a > Jpeg anytime (for quick printing e.g. on a Canon Selphy) the camera > can produce a Jpeg from Raw anyway (yes you can even change WB when > doing that). For a shoot of 750+ images I wouldn't fancy doing in camera developing, for how I work shooting RAW+JPG works well and the little 2MP jpeg images are only about 850k and most people can't believe the quality compared to their 7+MP P&S digicams. > Happy to know you're back, Rob, even if you don't write 10 times a day ;) Thanks, I should be a bit quieter (much to most peoples delight I expect) ;-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
