K20D RAW Button bug?

Smeggypants
Posted 12/11/2009 - 05:53 Link
womble wrote:
Smeggypants wrote:
You can on the K20D - just go into Menu->Rec Mode->RAW Button and set the RAW and RAW+ formats to change to JPG only when the RAW button is pressed...
I was just about to post an answer to this along the lines that my firmware didn't give that option when there was the loud 'clang' of an old penny hitting the bottom of a large empty barrel. I had misunderstood the way the menu worked on that screen and now I have cracked it: jpeg goes to RAW+, and RAW/RAW+ goes to jpeg only. I wondered why there was an option for RAW+ -> RAW+. Many thanks!

BTW, when one uses "quote this post" the backslashes reappear in the edit box...

K.
you're welcome

Of course you can set the RAW button to change any of the three formats to any of the three available formats which means 3 of the 9 combinations are pointless, ie jpg -> jpg, RAW -> RAW and RAW+ -> RAW+, but that's just stupidity and laziness on the part of the developers.

We're all grownups so if we set RAW to change to RAW by pressing the RAW button then it's our own fault
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