Hello JeremieB
Thank you that you will try it out !
An other tip:
The hybrid OVF is very different to your elder camera, or to a K3, KP and so on.
When you use with, for example, a KP and for example, the SEL L AF array, you never see your AF points before you focus. When you use the main AF not in the centre, it is not easy where you have to focus to your object. Ok, there is a tip, that you press the AF mode button, than you see all AF points of the array in red, but it is very short. With the hybrid OVF of the K1 and now K3 III, you see all AF points of this SEL L (the K3 III named it now Ex L), when you switch on the camera. The AF point boarders are a thin black square and the main AF point in this field has a little bigger black square lines. That makes this hybrid OVF so wonderful for to put your main AF point to your object. Now, when the scene is dark, even the hybrid OVF get not so useful than, because you do not see well this black square AF points, and the tip for such a dark scene is, use the AF mode button. Than, when the K3 III works like a K1 here, the AF points will get red illuminated, but now the red light get not off so long you push this button, and you can see them good and you can held your main AF point to your object and than you can start to focus.
Now when you focus, the K1 and I think the K3 III will do the same, all AF points get off and only the AF point, which is in use is with a thin black square visible and get a bigger black square when a hit is displayed.
About the black, grey and white color settings you did read,. I am sure that are only color setting for the Monitor or LV display, but not for the OVF.
Hello,
So I could test a few things (for OVF):
- there's only one setting regarding this, "viewfinder light", which can be on off or auto. There's no choice of colors.
- when you push "AF mode" button, the viewfinder goes entirely red. You can then use the dials to change either afs/af-c, either AF zone (auto sel x etc). VF remains red the whole time
- afs: when you do AF and there's a hit, VF flashes in red, and shows AF point hitted (after red flash it goes black). It's the same whether you use shutter or AF button to do AF
- AFC: it's black thin boxes all the time, no red flash even at initial focus
I think how VF overlay is done, my understanding is that there's no way to display something in black and something else in red. I think it's fundamentally monochrome. Also when it's flashing red, you can see it in the VF, what I mean is that it's not just the things displayed in overlay that get red, but the red diffuses in the VF globally (as if you would switch à red led at the side of the screen). My theory is that's why they didn't use that for af-c, when it flashes shortly it's not an issue, but that red glow would be too intrusive in af-c if it was on all the time or flickering quickly.
Subjective impression : the think black boxes in af-c mode are not easy to see, but if you focus your attention on them they are still visible. My overall feeling is in line with the whole camera : it has a more serious feel (I compare with K70), most colors are gone from the UI.
Globally items displayed in VF are cleaner and easier to read (display is very fine, for exemple the levels/orientation markers refresh very fast and it's much better), but it remains monochrome and "discreete", VF never seems cluttered even when there are grids and AF points. Information is there but easy to forget : you have to really think about checking it to actually notice it.
I'm not sure it's very clear :-D
