With the small lenses that I have for it, the Pentax K20D will not do that. I has a sad.
5.22.2025
Grip Gripe
If you're gonna build a grip into the body of your DSLR camera, like most every manufacturer does, I feel like it should be deep enough that I can let my arm hang by my side and the camera will dangle with just my fingertips in the grip, even with a fairly small lens on it. (If you've got some monster telephoto hanging off it, any camera will do that.)
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This prompted me to check the grip on my Nikon D5500. This,is grip done right since it is very deep, and the D5500 is otherwise petite, and modestly priced used
My new Pentax KF has an even tinier grip that do my K20D's. On a recent trip to Yellowstone I didn't chimp enough to notice that I had inadvertently bumped the 4-way controller and put it on "double-exposure". Since it over-writes the file with two exposures, everything I took was doubled, and there wasn't any way to recover them. I think that it's because the grip is so small that the heel of my hand hits the controller. I gotta watch out for that.
What I've done is set up a "User Mode" on the KF to the way I want the camera working with my big lens (150-450mm), and then turn it to that mode after I turn it on. I may mess it up when the camera is on, but I'll only trash the images I take until I turn it off.
Nikon is generally quite good with their grips.
I need to set up a user mode for "Indoor Portraits" on my cameras that will accommodate it.
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