Originally posted by aruk5 Someone mentioned that cameras were manufactured with cmos to increase battery power. Thats partially true but I think its more to do with saving manufacturing costs than about us users saving on battery. Cmos based sensors are cheaper to manufacture than ccd. If ccd supposedly uses more battery power why do my duracell 2400 batteries last twice as longer in my k100d as compared to k-x?
There are probably thousands of differences between the K100D and the K-x that could affect power consumption. assuming it is CCD versus CMOS is naive.
Quote: A common problem with cmos sensors is the rolling shutter effect when you shoot video
I see, and CCD snesors are immune to that effect when shooting video? Let's see some of those K100D videos...
Quote: a camera which is technically useless to capture video!
And yet millions of people manage to shoot video! Ovviously, not useless.
Quote: Technically the k-x might be superior to k100d in many aspects but there are still some areas where it lags behind
Perhaps, but you have thus far failed to prove the existence of any.
if you want, though, I can name two offhand - no focus point indicators in viewfinder, mirror flips during optical DOF preview with manual lenses.
Quote: Oh one more thing, as I told you all I like to do night time photography. Can anyone recommend a good setting with the k-x for handheld shooting of street scenes which have a mixture of very bright lights and darkness?
which direction the nearest library or bookstore is, set you feet in that direction. There are no magic camera settina that replace good old-fashioned understand of exposure.
Quote: I usually used my sigma 28mm prime [the legacy one] and as its a fully manual lens there wont be any auto aperture features when using in av mode.
Not only that, there is no Av mode, period. When you put the dial in Av mode, the aperture ring is ignored, and it shoots wide open all the time. Only M mode works correctly with fully manual lenses. Furthermore, it defaults to center-weighted metering, which is incapable of evaluating individual areas of the frame in order to blown hghlights. so you need to think like a center weighted meter in deciding when and how much compensation to apply.