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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
01-03-2010, 12:56 PM
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I would GLADLY pay an extra $100 usd (maybe even $200) for a K-x that could display and select focus points in the view finder. I would also gladly trade the movie feature (which most beginners will never learn to use properly) for a view finder that would display proper focus information. After all, a great movie camera (that I can actually use) can be purchased for under $200.
It looks like I must either get a 450D instead of a K-x, or wait until September and hope Pentax will announce a K-6. Or perhaps I should look for a used K20D.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
01-03-2010, 12:25 AM
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Thanks dude2009 for your reply. Here is my question.
If you were shooting the scene I described with your K-x, and your focusing beep sounded, how would you know whether your were focused on Granny, or Grandpa, or Aunt, or the flowers, or some kid who just popped into the background wearing contrasty clothes?
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
01-02-2010, 01:16 AM
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I bought a Spotmatic more than forty years ago when Honeywell marketed the Pentax brand. Currently, I have a Spotmatic and a Canon EOS film camera which has selectable focus zones displayed in the viewfinder. I am about to purchase a DSLR. I am drawn to the K-x but may get a Canon 450D.
Please, don't repeat all the tired arguments above. Rather, if you have a K-m or a K-x, tell me from your experience how to approach the situations I will describe. Center focus and recompose is not an option.
You are at the family Christmas party and many people are seated and others are milling around in various locations around a large room, wondering in and out of any shot you might want. Kids are running around.
(1) You are looking to freeze the scene at various instants when opportunities are presented. You see Granny sitting in the middle of the room and Grandpa is three feet closer. You want Granny to be focused in the left of the frame, Grandpa in the center, and the spinster aunt, who is four feet further back on the right. Granny is making a momentary gesture that will only last a second and you want it on the image.
You are shooting in room light and the image seen in the pentamirror is not bright and well defined. How do you know if the camera is focused on Granny or Grandpa or the Aunt, or the flowers just in front of Granny?
I would use my EOS, not my Spotmatic, here. If the camera did not select Granny I could quickly select the proper focus point.
(2) In other situations you might see a shot developing and pre-select your subjects. Then, at the proper moment, take the shot. It would not be practical to center-focus and then hold that for a lengthy period while the shot was developing and while the subject(s) were moving about. The subjects would move out of focus. I would select a focus spot over the main subject and could get the shot even if he moved closer or farther away, and with some cameras could even track him. If he moved out of the focus point I would know that (because I could see all the focus points) before I took the shot and could easily re-aquire him.
I hope someone can sort this out for me because I would like to purchase the K-x.
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