A77ii v A68 v A58 AF

QuietOC wrote: I did use both the 5 FPS and 8 FPS modes of the A58 a lot. One rather annoying thing with the A58 is the buffer would often decrease to 3 or 4 frames instead of the full 6 frames. I actually called customer support about it. Resetting the camera is what they offer to fix the problem, and that does work. It seemed to have something to do with Lens Compensation. One or more of the Lens Compensation options uses some of buffer space (Distortion seems to be the one.) I think this is actually true of all the recent SLT models, but the buffer is so small on the A58 that the reduction is dramatic.

Whenever I shoot in continuous hi (via the Fn menu), it takes 2-3 shots then a pause, then another 2-3, and so on. Frankly this is pitiful, and the only thing on the camera I find useless. If it was important to me I'd already have picked a different camera. Good to know the A68 is better.

I rarely use the FPS modes on the top dial - I will have to see if it behaves differently then.

Miranda F wrote: QuietOC wrote: I did use both the 5 FPS and 8 FPS modes of the A58 a lot. One rather annoying thing with the A58 is the buffer would often decrease to 3 or 4 frames instead of the full 6 frames. I actually called customer support about it. Resetting the camera is what they offer to fix the problem, and that does work. It seemed to have something to do with Lens Compensation. One or more of the Lens Compensation options uses some of buffer space (Distortion seems to be the one.) I think this is actually true of all the recent SLT models, but the buffer is so small on the A58 that the reduction is dramatic. Whenever I shoot in continuous hi (via the Fn menu), it takes 2-3 shots then a pause, then another 2-3, and so on. Frankly this is pitiful, and the only thing on the camera I find useless. If it was important to me I'd already have picked a different camera. Good to know the A68 is better. I rarely use the FPS modes on the top dial - I will have to see if it behaves differently then.

I had noticed 3 years ago that the burst mode of 5fps gave me 5 to 6 shots when I bought the camera and without undwrstanding why a few years ago it wouldn't pass 3 images...
I figured out that the DRO mode was one of the reasons of this. I switched it off and got 4 to 5 shots back.

BearairCactus wrote: No digital level on A68

Thank you for this comment! Coming from an A68, I never realised that the A77ii had one.

For anyone else wondering where it is - unsurprisingly given it's only mentioned as a label in the full 231 page manual - it's on the text info screen display.

It would be nice if it were on the screen's liveview display, but given that having one is the only thing I envied on a friend's Pentax, I'm happy.

Nordlicht wrote: my good old entry level to midrange A55 feels sometimes like a high end camera , when I compare the features with it's modern successors: fully flexible LCD screen, GPS, digital level in live view. Seems that for every improvement of the sensor, AF system and processor they cut of some amenities from the feature list

Half a dozen steps forward, one step back :)

QuietOC wrote: Level should also be one of options for the Finder and Monitor for live-view. It would be nice to have multiple live-view features enabled at the same time and maybe options for their location on the screen. Right now you can have either the level or the histogram, but not both.

Oh! Where's the menu setting for that? If I press DISP, it toggles between live view with plenty of info on the top and left but no histogram; live view with hardly anything; live view with a small histogram on bottom right; and the text display with both level and (larger) histogram.