K5 questions

Absolutely not Dave !

For the first week or two it was a pain, now I change modes without even thinking about the lock - it is now just an automatic action to depress it whilst turing the dial.
And you will be very thankful for it, nothing worse than firing off some shots and finding you are in a different mode and didn't get the result you expected (especially if the scene is unrepeatable) or wondering why everything seems to have gone haywire when in fact the mode dial has been nudged onto something else.

Hi Bernard.

I found the same problem removing the SD card from the K5, but the trick I now use is, to push the card in to release it, and instead of just letting it return, and then trying to grip it. I let it flip past the end of my finger, this gives enough card to grip and remove from camera.

Hope that makes sense, bit difficult to explain.


Take care.

Yes, me too. Pointless IMO. It's just as easy to leave it in the wrong place as it was before, and it wasn't easy to rotate it accidentally before. Well, I never did anyway.

I'm with frogfish on this one - I think it's an excellent feature and am amazed more cameras don't have it

I wouldn't mind so much if the video mode wasn't 5 clicks away from Av.

They couldn't give us a dedicated video button, so they made video as far away as possible from the most frequently used priority modes of all.

Yes, that makes perfect sense...

well see that's the thing - we are all, thank goodness, different. I have no intention to use video and my dial is permanently on Manual .... come to think could glue it to that really.

so our opinions are going to be shaped by how we use our kit

Must agree wholehartedly with Juddermad62, I dont use video, I use mostly Manual lens's, so the auto modes dont work anyway, Canon did do this on some early EOS film cameras but discontinued it quickly.

Dave.

I once bought an EOS 5 which also had a lock on the mode dial, a few films later it broke and dial now spins freely (and is almost impossible to use).

If anybody would like to buy it, let me know

Another query....

How do you set up bracketed exposure (say -1..0..+1) and 2sec delay on the K5

Both are on the same function select (up on the 4 way controller)

Bernard

Disregard - I've eventually twigged. Just very different to K10D

Bernard

ooooh I wanted to do that this weekend and could not work it out - how does one do it please bernard ?

That got me wondering too.

The answer is hidden on page 159 of the camera manual

In other words, custom menu setting 9 needs changing to 2 (as well as having the appropriate setting in the drive menu) otherwise it only takes one shot per shutter press!

John

I found it on the 4 way controller as follows :-

Press up
Select penultimate symbol
Select middle symbol on bottom row
Set the +/- exposure range

Job done, but by the time I'd found it the moment had gone.

regards
Bernard

thanks peeps