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K3 Image Review and Deletion
Pentax K3 firmware version 1.00
The image review (play) feature is frustratingly modal: one can have a histogram (two variants) OR an uncluttered full image view OR two info windows, but there is no cycling between them as with Nikon or Canon.
Suppose one wants to see the histogram, then see the uncluttered image, to cycle between them. This ought to be as simple as cycling to the alternate view using the up-down arrows on the 4-way controller. Instead, it takes a button to raise a menu, then one has to scroll to the desired view, then confirm. Then to get back to the histogram, the process has to be repeated. After doing this a few dozen (or hundred) times, a frustration starts to build.
Ironically, the desired behavior already existing in a simple form: one can cycle between the luminance and RGB histograms this way using the up/down controller. But not between the histograms and the uncluttered or info views. This back-and-forth wasted a huge amount of time when I am shooting in the field. A firmware change could fix this easily enough.
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