Originally posted by souless I am so excited that this new SR works wonderfully.
However, I have a question/favor to ask, for the people who own(ed) both K-1 and other body to compare the time for SR to warm up.
Using the bodies before K-1, I usually do half press shutter-->wait for little green hand to popup-->fully press shutter!
Does SR in K-1 still take time to warm up? meaning you still have to wait for the little green hand to popup before fully press shutter. If there exits such a pause, is this pause significantly shorter than the bodies before K-1?
Thank you in advance!!
I haven't owned any other Pentax's, so I can't compare against them. However I don't need to. I just tested this out because I never even knew that it was possible for the SR to "warm up" as you mentioned. With SR on, there is no warm up time. It is just on, it just works. Even when you look through the viewfinder with the camera off, as you turn it on the green hand pops up at the exact same time as the rest of the overlay within the viewfinder. There is no delay whatsoever.
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Originally posted by Vote4Pedro I just wanted to bump this thread and say how impressive the K-1's shake reduction system is! It's unbelievable really! I took a few handheld test shots of the stars, and was surprised. I am not good at resizing and reposting
but the tests may be seen on Flickr, I was getting pinpoint stars up to about 1.3 seconds!
As a side note, I love the little refinements they added I discovered the camera mount light (but not the others) will turn on for about 30 seconds if you press the illuminate button while the camera is off. Nice touch! This has proven to be helpful during astrophotography. No more fiddling with a phone light while trying to switch lenses.
I did some more tests on the SR last night and what continually blown away. I mentioned previously in this thread that I was able to get 1s exposures that were completely usable, so this time I tried to test the SR until it failed. I set the shutter speed to 1/60th, the ol rule of thumb to never go under. Then I proceeded to shake the camera more and more as I took shots. It works to an insane degree. I could hand this camera to a drunk person and every single photo would be sharp as a tack. This gives another big buffer zone so that if you have to take a very quick shot, I know it will be sharp every time.
And I didn't even know that the lens light coming on when the camera was off was a feature. I love this camera more and more every day.