I am looking for suggestions and perspectives. I like to carry my camera around all day on a strap and shoot on impulse. Fast, varied, and spontaneous. I have been shooting with a K10D for years don't know anything else, it just always worked for me. It was fast on, fast to shoot and lasted all day.
I am now feeling stymied by the KP. The startup time is too slow to keep it off and turn it on and take a fast shot. The LCD burns through power extremely fast so I am shooting with it turned off. When it is off I can't review and adjust my exposure settings at a glance or get warning when overexposing before bringing the viewfinder to my eye (no top LCD/shoulder display). I started to get used to using the viewfinder and memorizing my settings, but now I am struggling with the "meter operating time". This determines how long the camera metering function is on before going to sleep (which burns power), but it also controls how long the settings display in the viewfinder. But when I set it to switch off after the minimum 3 seconds, the wake up time becomes problematic. The controls take half a second to wake up, so every tweak has lag time. This also adds half a second to shutter actuation, which is tremendously frustrating when I am sitting waiting for the "right moment" and the darn thing goes to sleep. Even setting everything to full manual makes it no faster to fire, the meter still needs to wake up.
The feeling of "you are doing it wrong" isn't new to me, and usually means I got the wrong equipment for the job or I need to change my antiquated style.
What's going on here? Do I need a pro flagship camera that has fast-on with shoulder LCD? Have all cameras moved to more power consumption and more complicated software that takes longer to wake?
Last edited by MotoMind; 07-25-2019 at 05:03 AM.