Originally posted by Ash As much as photography is an art and it takes skill, the gear is important - so I want to see some P-TTL magic, some AF tweaking, and some auto lens calibration features.
Auto lens alignment would be nice, just set up some sort of target that the software will recognize, and the camera can chose the right FF/BF correction.
pTTL needs a lot of work, it doesn't even support zones, just channels. Shooting wirelessly, you can't really do anything from the camera position other than dial in EV compensation on the flash. I would like the ability to adjust zones independently from one another, and turn them on and off from the camera.
The second problem I have with pTTL is the hotshoe/pop-up/PC socket, they going inactive above 1/180th. There needs to be an expert setting or something that will allow them to fire even though they're not synced. I have a great HSS flash, but I can't use it wirelessly unless I have another on the shoe, AND contributing to the exposure.
The third issue is that when shooting in Av mode, which I don't really do, but some folks seem to like it, the camera tries to get the exposure correct without the flash, then adds the flash on top of that. There needs to be a way to tell the camera "Hey, don't worry, the flash is going to take care of that."
AF could use a little work, but if I had to choose between accuracy, and speed, I'd say make accuracy a priority. I can put my K20d on a good solid tripod with my DA* 50-135, aim it at a nice obvious straight line, hit the AF button (I don't use the shutter release to focus), wait a second until it find the focus and beeps, and that's not too bad. But if I hit AF 10 times, and take a shot each time, I will get 10 differently focused pictures. I'm primarily a portrait photographer, and I work a lot at f/2.8, my idea of "acceptable sharpness" is not very forgiving, so add accuracy and consistency to my AF wishlist.
These are the types of refinements that Pentax needs to make if it's going to produce a professional's camera.