[Adam]

A demonstration of the K-1's many customizable viewfinder elements:

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Adam
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[Belcik]

Las Vegas?

[Not a Number]

No 1:1 crop?

[tryphon4]

This is really impressive, I cannot wait to test it!

[WPRESTO]

Adam: Thank you for posting for that little video.

[souless]

Dear Adam, Thank you again for the wonderful video!

Here are some questions regarding the AF overlay:
Because there is no sound in the video you post,
I guess the red flashing light(starting from 00:36)
indicating that you were half-pressing the shutter button?

If my assumption is correct, It seems that there is no red solid square indicating the in-focus AF point
when you acquiring the focus.
then how do we know what AF point(s) is(are) current locked on
if we choose multiple AF points(auto 33/9...etc) to shoot with?

Because from Ricoh's official AF tracking Demo video
there is no red square, just the black ones indicating the AF points that are currently tracking(in-focus).
Those AF points that are not in-focus (but still effective) will not be overlayed while tracking.

Is K-1 using black square instead of red solid square(we used to have in k-3/5/7) indicating the in-focus AF points? If so, wouldn't black square be less ideal than red solid square for shooting at dark/black scene?

Sorry if I totally misunderstand how k-1's AF system works.
Thanks in advance!!!

[enoeske]

Dear Adam, Thank you again for the wonderful video!

Here are some questions regarding the AF overlay:
Because there is no sound in the video you post,
I guess the red flashing light(starting from 00:36)
indicating that you were half-pressing the shutter button?

If my assumption is correct, It seems that there is no red solid square indicating the in-focus AF point
when you acquiring the focus.
then how do we know what AF point(s) is(are) current locked on
if we choose multiple AF points(auto 33/9...etc) to shoot with?

Because from Ricoh's official AF tracking Demo video
there is no red square, just the black ones indicating the AF points that are currently tracking(in-focus).
Those AF points that are not in-focus (but still effective) will not be overlayed while tracking.

Is K-1 using black square instead of red solid square(we used to have in k-3/5/7) indicating the in-focus AF points? If so, wouldn't black square be less ideal than red solid square for shooting at dark/black scene?

Sorry if I totally misunderstand how k-1's AF system works.
Thanks in advance!!!

Previous cameras did not show the AF spot either, they just lit up red when something was in focus at that spot. The K-1, I've heard, has the black AF spots as well as flash red.

[Tanzer]

Best video ever!

I'm guessing the crop outline is a bit smaller than the full view through the K-3 and K-5? So if shooting APS-C lenses, it might be easier to manually focus through the K-3 viewfinder, right?

[Dr_who]

No 1:1 crop?

You can create a 1s action in Photoshop or Lightroom to do that for you, I'm sure you can even do a batch process of that in some manner fairly quickly.

[todd]

More thanks! Impressive features in there! Made me curious about the focus points in LV for the K-1. I often appreciate the wider (than OVF) focus point perimeter in LV on the K-3 and wonder how wide it is on K-1 (in comparison to K-3 LV)...

[Ole]

Las Vegas?

Yes! That's where the WPPI Expo was held and thus where we could lay our hands on a K-1!

The good news: All this camera testing kept us out of the casinos so we had monies left for gas for the trip back to Phoenix, AZ!

[Ole]

More thanks! Impressive features in there! Made me curious about the focus points in LV for the K-1. I often appreciate the wider (than OVF) focus point perimeter in LV on the K-3 and wonder how wide it is on K-1 (in comparison to K-3 LV)...

Here is a screen shot showing the live view focusing grid. The focusing area can be moved around, of course, and enlarged to cover more, or all, squares.

[Sandy Hancock]

I'm even more excited now....

[Not a Number]

You can create a 1s action in Photoshop or Lightroom to do that for you, I'm sure you can even do a batch process of that in some manner fairly quickly.

That's not my point. It appears some of the pre-production demo models have 1:1 crop mode and some don't. When asked about this at CP+ the Ricoh rep said the production models will only have full or APS-C crop. The reports are of the demo models at a camera store in Canada have the 1:1 crop mode - leading people to think that this is an unannounced feature that will be on the production models.

So the question remains will 1:1 (and 4:3) crop mode with indicators in the viewfinder be on the production models or not. Was it removed or added to later demo models? If it was a feature that was removed or disabled from firmware may it not be added back later in a firmware update? Were the framelines added or removed on the viewfinder LCD? If it were a hardware revision to remove the crop indicator re-appearance in firmware updates would be much less likely.

Only time will tell.

And you can crop to APS-C size in PP, so why bother having it in the camera.

[Ole]

We asked RICOH at WPPI and they said that the 1:1 crop mode is gone from the production models.