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Which AF method? Rear or shutter button?
Rear button everytime. Everyone should persevere with it for 2 weeks with AF set to AF-C. Hopefully you'll find that AF-S can be made redundant. It does take a bit of getting used to. If after giving it a fair trial you don't like, then switch back :wink:
Posted by Blythman on 24/07/2012 - 13:42
Which AF method? Rear or shutter button?
It does take a bit of getting used to. If after giving it a fair trial you don't like, then switch back :wink: I had a go like that for a while. Possibly not a long enough go to get properly used to it. One thing that made me give up sooner than I might have is that I look through the VF with my...
Posted by ChrisA on 24/07/2012 - 13:50
Which AF method? Rear or shutter button?
Rear button/AF-C, best of all worlds. Took me 4 tries before I finally got used to it and didn't switch back :D
Posted by Mike-P on 24/07/2012 - 14:23
Which AF method? Rear or shutter button?
Rear button/AF-C, best of all worlds. Took me 4 tries before I finally got used to it and didn't switch back :D You guys are definitely tempting me to give it another go. I guess the only thing is that if you hit the release, it always fires?
Posted by ChrisA on 24/07/2012 - 15:41
Which AF method? Rear or shutter button?
I still use the half press when I need to Chris. It activates metering and it activates the OS on my Sigma 150-500mm. Yes, I understand that bit :) I just meant that unlike in AF-S, if you press the button all the way down in AF-C it will fire whether it's in focus or not (???) whereas in AF-S un...
Posted by ChrisA on 24/07/2012 - 17:10
Which AF method? Rear or shutter button?
Half press shutter and AF - S. I use the quick focus ring to get about there and then fine tune. I have though been learning this week how to set up an ACTION User mode on my still newish K5 (with continuous High shooting)to replace the lazy Sport dial setting on my old KR. I can't see there is a...
Posted by wvbarnes on 24/07/2012 - 17:29
Which AF method? Rear or shutter button?
Shutter button here. I tried the rear button for a while, but kept (I'm embarrassed to admit) forgetting to focus! Now I have the rear button set to cancel AF, so I can actually take a picture when doing focus/recompose (if the red dot is on something which isn;t in focus, the shutter won't fire - I...
Posted by Pentaxophile on 24/07/2012 - 18:00
Which AF method? Rear or shutter button?
Always the rear button for me, I find it far more flexible and less prone to focus errors when re-composing. The only downside is that I get confused when switching between K-5 and K-x as the buttons are in different places! I can live with that though. Regards David
Posted by davidstorm on 24/07/2012 - 21:35
Which AF method? Rear or shutter button?
Rear button for me. Enforced choice as I have a tremor - my hands won't do half a press on the shutter - its all or nothing! But I think I'd go with rear button even if I had the choice. I like to compose my shots using the centre focus point and then recompose and keep shooting for a few shots and ...
Posted by davey on 24/07/2012 - 21:39
Which AF method? Rear or shutter button?
Thank you all for your comments. majority seem to favour rear button, but I also like the 'one button' argument from John R. On balance though I thinh I'll keep on with the rear button, but add AF-C, which I hadn't considered. And if you want the equivalent of AF-S then just ease off with the thu...
Posted by Blythman on 24/07/2012 - 23:03
Which AF method? Rear or shutter button?
I'm in the smaller group of shutter only for a few reasons. Firstly, as John says, why press two buttons. Secondly, I use the rear wheel to control the aperture so having to 'find' the rear buttons is a pain. Thirdly, pressing or just holding any button at the rear of the camera when taking...
Posted by greynolds999 on 25/07/2012 - 10:37
Which AF method? Rear or shutter button?
Depends what I'm doing rear button/AF-C for wildlife and sport shutter button/AF-S for walkabout and portrait manual focus for macro and landscape
Posted by mille19 on 11/08/2012 - 20:30
Which AF method? Rear or shutter button?
Thanks all for your continued input. What's coming over for me is that there is clearly a more 'horses for courses' argument as to which mode to use and to decide in advance. What prompted this was being caught out when an Olympic torch bearer got off a bus right in front of me and I was sudd...
Posted by JohnX on 12/08/2012 - 11:23
Which AF method? Rear or shutter button?
I was skeptical about this at first but I have found an improvement in my results. Repeated focusing can increase the incidence of misfocused pictures and after a while the back button focus becomes automatic. The K3 is better suited because of the placing of the button, but when I change to my K5...
Posted by miles500 on 12/10/2014 - 18:50
No help from Pentax re lost software CD
I'll send you my disk if you're desperate. Would appreciate it back though (I don't use it but would like to keep in case I sell my camera).
Posted by Pentaxophile on 25/07/2012 - 23:47
Self timer/shutter control affects quality?
Is it something to do with the focus? was camera set to chooses its own focus on both occasions. if the camera is set to auto select then it may choose a different point especially if the camera is on a tripod and lower than handheld height. Try similar shots using manual focus. Better still p...
Posted by fatspider on 30/07/2012 - 09:39
Self timer/shutter control affects quality?
I agree that this setting might be the cause. I have a K7 and a remote control unit but have had no problems with the remote control - I love the fact we can shoot from in front or behind the camera! But the camera has to be set to either : 1) focus first (with shutter button or manually) and sho...
Posted by McGregNi on 30/07/2012 - 20:48
Self timer/shutter control affects quality?
Thanks for the tip. I used the 12 second timer. Notification was short, but the photo came out ok.I will refer back to this page[as it seems more likely to happen again!]:D:D:D
Posted by caj26 on 08/08/2012 - 19:20
No icon preview for PEF files on Mac
I've just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion and looks like DNG files are previewed in icon form, and coverflow, but none of my PEFs are! (even going back to *ist-D days all the way up to K5) Just Googling and checking whether any other RAW formats are previewed in icon form. Edit: http...
Posted by MattMatic on 31/07/2012 - 12:24
No icon preview for PEF files on Mac
Well, PEF previews should work in Lion & ML. Some suggest running a Repair Disk Permissions (using Disk Utility) and that often fixes icon preview problems. Just trying it and will report back... Matt
Posted by MattMatic on 31/07/2012 - 13:01
