this pigues my interest. I'm mostly using my left eye. any left-eye-ers that use grips? I'm curious about vertical usage experience - to use the additional buttons camera should be rotated counter-clockwise (right hand highest) whereas I typically use k10d left hand highest.
now that I think about it, when I used Z1 with hot-shoe mounted flash vertically, I would actually use it right-hand-highest, to have the flash above the lens. Axel. William Robb responded: > From: "David J Brooks" > > > Any one using this grip. > > > > My plan is to have a look at the 60-250 F4 when it is released > > hopefully in the not to distant future, and use the K10D as my prime > > equine camera. My D200 gives me good static shots, but my action shots > > tend to be soft. I like the colour and richness of the K10D > > presentation shots i have done in the past. The small amount of action > > stuff looked pretty good to. I have to less PPing with the K10D as > > opposed to the D1H and D2H. > > > > If i go this route, and get the 60-250, i think it will be a large > > some what heavy lens and which would help by getting the grip. > > > > Any one using it feel it helps in balance of larger lenses. > > Does it let you know individual battery strengh like the D200. > > Do you think 1 Pentax battery and 1 3rd party battery in the grip > > would last for 450-550 shots, with chimping. > > The grip does a very nice job of balancing off bigger lenses. I routinely > use an 80-200/2.8, and much prefer the way the camera handles with the grip > on the camera. > If the 3rd party battery is equivalent to the Pentax battery, you should > have no problem. > The grip allows you to choose the battery order that the camera uses. The > choices are simultaneous, or you can choose to drain either the camera > battery or grip battery first. > I have my camera set to drain the grip battery, then switch over to the > camera battery when the grip battery dies. It can be a moment of > inconvenience, as the camera must be turned off and then on when the battery > dies, but I like knowing when I am at the 50% point for battery consumption. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
