K-S2, its one second display, and the 18-135

Historicity wrote:

I got the K-S2 yesterday and took it on a hike using the 18-135 lens. It was a confused outing. I intended to play with the Tav setting, but was disconcerted by the 1 second display which would display the photo I just took as being extremely dark. Was it the setting? I switched back to manual but the same thing happened. I scrolled through the menu but saw no way to brighten the 1 sec display. I found a way to brighten the LCD but apparently that didn't apply to the 1 sec display.

Would my photos come out or would they be dark? As it happened they did come out so the 1 sec display was wrong: https://lawrencehelm.smugmug.com/RiverPhotography/Jan-2017/

Or maybe I was wrong. I checked the one sec display on the K-S1. It was a bit darker than what I'm used to with the K3 but not nearly as dark as on the K-S2.

Is there an adjustment I'm unaware of or do I have a defective camera? Has anyone else had this problem?

As to the photos themselves, this day I noticed a lot of softness in both upper corners at 18mm, and especially in the upper right hand corner. I was hiking in an area where there was a lot of dried brush from our drought so some of the shots showed the brush from left to right; so I could see that it wasn't a depth of field issue. I didn't save all of them and some I cropped a bit but some I left. There were some others that I thought faulty at first but when I checked my settings I could see that P or auto gave me something with little depth of field (something I wouldn't have sought in Manual) so all beyond my focal point was a bit blurred.

Since I was impressed with the 18-135 on my outings with the K3 and K-S1 recently but wasn't yesterday although the day was overly affected by the dark 1 second display, I wonder if I didn't set the 18-135 permanently on the shelf and use the 16-85 as my zoom of choice after a day like yesterday -- although I don't remember horsing around with settings quite as much as I did yesterday.

I would really like to know what to do about the 1 second display, if anyone knows.

Lawrence

I never noticed darkness in my images on the screen of my K-S2, but you can turn off one second display in the menus.

Chuck