Live & Learn

[smoke665]

Sometimes when you fiddle around with stuff without full knowledge of what you're doing it will come back and bite you on the $$$. Spent the last couple hours trying to figure out why my flash was disabled in Live View on the K1MII. Finally traced the problem to a menu setting I had tried a few weeks ago and forgot to turn off. The K1MII gives you the option of disabling the mechanical shutter and activating an electronic shutter. Works fine on program modes with flash but setting camera to manual disables flash entirely in Live View. Turned it off everything works again...lesson learned.

 

[Digger...]

mechanical shutter and activating an electronic shutter.

Whats the pros & cons to these 2 types of shutters? Electronic not having a shutter count.

 

[smoke665]

Whats the pros & cons to these 2 types of shutters? Electronic not having a shutter count.

I didn't really try it long enough to find out. Obviously the biggest con is the problem with flash when on manual! Supposedly the main advantage of the Electronic Shutter is the increased speed possible and the silent operation, but the way the sensor is read line by line, it's also possible to see distortion on fast moving subjects.

 

[cgw]

Those RTFM moments...Can only say I have fewer these days but the remainder keep me humble.

 

[smoke665]

Those RTFM moments...Can only say I have fewer these days but the remainder keep me humble.

Pentax has sub menus with sub-sub-sub menus. Their manuals are sadly skimpy on information and the index is a joke. As each new model came out they've built on existing menus, so I've been able to keep up for the most part. The problem is when there's an issue, you pretty much have to solve it yourself or search the user forum.

 

[cgw]

A head slapper for me was in early days with Fuji cameras. Hold the "menu" button down a bit too long and it locks the camera--nice. After a few doltish minutes I recalled putting the manual on my tablet. Problem solved with some lost face.

 

[KJ_North]

I didn't really try it long enough to find out. Obviously the biggest con is the problem with flash when on manual! Supposedly the main advantage of the Electronic Shutter is the increased speed possible and the silent operation, but the way the sensor is read line by line, it's also possible to see distortion on fast moving subjects.

Increased shutter speed for sure. I am limited to 12 FPS manual shutter or 30 FPS available with electronic shutter. The distortion issue is finally almost a thing of the past on the top cameras as the readout speed has drastically improved mostly eliminating that issue.