viewfinder brightness !

Is it possible to increase the brightness of my K10 viewfinder display ?? I've looked through the manual and can't find anything !

Just been out in bright sunlight and couldn't see a thing !!

Do you mean the back panel LCD brightness?
(There's a setting for that!)

The viewfinder has no brightness controls - it's optical
And the digital display doesn't have a brightness... I often find cupping my left hand over the viewfinder and my eye helps in bright side lighting.

Matt

No not the LCD display. As seen through the viewfinder. It sometimes brightens up of it's own accord (bright light perhaps?), so wondered if I'd missed a setting somewhere

By digital display, do u mean on the top ?? If so that has a button to illuminate, of course.

The left hand trick is what I use, but as a glasses wearer I'm even further from the viewfinder

Stu means the green display showed here, I believe.



I believe it has 2 brightness settings which work automatically but you can't control them in anyway.

Mine looks yellow !? but what the hell !!

Any idea what triggers it Stefan ??

Yellow/green what ever you want to call it

I believe it use the EV meter and when it's dark it dims the display and when it's bright it brightens it.

Not enough ! obviously !! lol

Just engage the optical preview!


If the view finder picture is bright then the pupil of your eye will be small letting in a small amount of light.

If the viewfinder picture is dull then the pupil of your eye will be larger letting in a larger amount of light.

When the pupil of your eye is larger then the green display will appear to be brighter.

Engaging the optical preview will stop down the lens, let in less light (unless lens is fully open of course), viewfinder picture becomes darker, your pupil becomes bigger, information display becomes (apparently) brighter!

The limit to this is of course the diameter of the image exiting the viewfinder as of course if your pupil diameter needs to ge bigger then there will be reduced brightness.

Nice idea !!

But don't work !! Preview blanks display !!

Try again ! lol

If Pentax bring out a FF DSLR??? That will have a brighter viewfinder by default.

Regards

Ah well - some you win and some you loose...

It'll make no difference to the brightness of the in-finder information display.

K.

No you would even need a brighter display then.

What you could do is aim the camera downwards to the ground, but don't know if that's usefull?
Also you can adjust your camera using the top LCD screen.