Originally posted by monochrome This post (on many threads) would carry more weight if the poster was known to be a Pentax NDA beta tester.
So tell me Shodan... How do i become a PENTAX NDA beta tester....
And in case someone like such a beta tester would read it: Focus Bracketing would be really cool for macros...(Which a full frame would also be ideal for...
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AND:
I need Phase Detection AF in Live-View mode on my FF just like on the good old K-5II, if there isn't some real innovation built into it making my demand unnecessary.(like a kind of that "Sony A99 - AF System" - but still with a flippy mirror... )
And i would love to see a histogram even when i am not in Live-View mode ... Pentax should add this features to a future firmware update for the K-3... This could be implemented as a fifth Statusdisplay-Option beside "Normal", "Level", "OFF" and "Compass", i really see no problem to drag those icons together and fit in an icon for "Histogram"... i really see no problem in implementing those functions.
Read more at:
https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/16-pentax-news-rumors/298256-ff-out-4-mon...#ixzz3iv5rhM4E
---------- Post added 08-15-15 at 02:55 PM ----------
And just in case it didn't get through yet:
A press on the AE-L Button should lock and vice versa unlock the photo that is highlighted when in review mode. (At the moment one must go to many ways with the buttons...)
And you should make the interface as a whole more customizable...
The Standard Info-Screen (when not in live-view mode) should have interchangable elements that one(the user) can modify.... for instance time and aperture are displayed on the BW top-LCD. One should be able to exchange the field of the info display that shows that values with a histogram(for instance) or the level(for instance) or a compass(for instance)
And if you are thinking... How should we implement this without a touchscreen? I tell ya, everything could be accomplished without a touchscreen. For INSTANCE:
With a long press on the play button one could set the info display to Adjust-Info-Display Mode and the camera should indicate that by a blinking thick green bezel around the element to change...If than in "Adjust Mode" one could push the "Delete Button" and keep it pressed while exchanging the element with the 4-way controller.... afterwards another long press on the "Play"(Review Mode) Button and voila the blinking thick green bezel disappears and we are back on the normal Info-Display with the now exchanged Info-Elements.
And if you guys would replace the "Delete Button" with the "Red Button",(actually for starting Records in Vid-Mode and switching to LV-mode but that would never interfere in this scenario/set-up... - you could make all pentax users happy... one less button- )
then one would/could use the newly introduced "Red Button" for :
A) Exchanging the Info-Display elements when in Adjust-Info-Display Mode
B) Deleting Pictures when in Review-Mode...
C) switching to LV when in Stil-Camera Mode
D) start a record when in Video-Camera-Mode
Those ideas are a present to Ricoh-Imaging Corp. ... I hereby waive a claim on the authorship of this
"User Elements Interaction Functionality" for the benefit of "Ricoh Imaging Co., Ltd."