Originally posted by house They must be aware that they are doing something unusual when locking picture control and aperture triangle together with af scene detection. Pentax does allow for great variety of automatic vs manual in all sorts of other ways I wonder why they consider af as being so different.
The GR has similar oddity in that face detect is activated by setting the picture style to portrait. So again you get locked colour settings with the af mode! I can imagine that it's just the way things worked ages ago with the early point and shoots etc. No excuse for keeping in that way now though. They would effectively be wasting all that af progress since more demanding photographers are unlikely to accept green mode in exchange of intelligent AF.
First, you have quite a momentum in constructing strawmen... whatever
Second, I don't think this is the case, we will know more soon when it is released.
Third, and if it was so, it just shows how the full automatic AF mode can also be seen: you hand over the control to the canera, it's not different than a point and shoot approach any way
Point it at a crowd of people and let the camera decide which eye to focus on. A shrewdness of apes, a cete of badgers, a cloud of bats, a sloth of bears, a swarm of bees, a gang of buffalos, a caravan of camels, a clowder of cats or a litter of kittens? The AI chooses the focus point