If you think the K10D's heavy, spend a day hauling around a MF SLR ;-) I'm always glad for the K10D's compact size and light weight after a day of shooting with my 645 Super. Especially if I'm hauling the full kit of 4 lenses, 3 backs, body, AE Prism, winder, crank (I use the crank on the tripod, winder elsewhere), cable release widget and tripod. Bloody bag weighs a ton with all of that in it.
-Adam On 1/6/08, Thibouille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is defenitely worth it. > > It is very usefull if you whoot portrait and as others said you can > tell the camera to draw first the grip battery, then the camera > battery, or the contrary or both at the same time. > > You can check each battrey status in the menu (not directly on the > camera) but remember the K10D still has the problem (although a lot > less) of the ist-D : it will show full batery and 5 minutes later > display an empty battery ... > > Also worth mentionning is that the shutter release is a lot better > designed than on the ist-d grip: you will not (well I do never) > trigger the vertical shutter release "by accident" when holding the > camera in landscape mode. It happened a lot with the ist-D but not > with the K10D. As a matter of fact I do never dactivate the second > shutter release. > > As the K10D is not a very lightweight camera, I sometimes feel like > the grip is too heavy although when I do not use it, my little finger > has nowhere to grip on the camera. The thing is, in this case, I just > remove the battery from the grip and the whole thing is a lot lighter > and I can still use the vertical release. You could use no battery in > the camera and one in the grip if that suits you better. > > Pay attention not to lose the rubber piece when you put the grip on or off. > > I really can't find any negative to this grip. > > > -- > Thibault Massart aka Thibouille > ---------------------- > Photo: K10D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... > Thinkpad: X23+UB,X60+UB > Programing: D7 user (trying out D2007) > > -- > 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. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
