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Digital Photography Book
Try A National Geographic guide to photography. there is some invaluable advice on taking good pictures. Also go into charity shops and second hand book shops . there are always good photo books in there at great prices and although they might6 not be new, the fundamentals of photography will usuall...
Posted by steelski on 27/09/2004 - 16:19
unable to install software cd ?? please help!
i am having trouble installing the pentax software cd so i am unable to download my pictures from my camera to the pc. anytime i attemp to install the software and i click on ACDsee it starts to prepare the setup and then stops and brings me back onto the start menu of the cd. does this mean i have ...
Posted by munky on 07/10/2004 - 21:24
which camera?
The user interface on the Pentax digital SLRs is very similar to the Z1 and Z1-P, so you will be on familiar territory. The Pentax cameras are smaller than the competition, and generally very well-built (though the memory card door is a well-known minor defect). They have the best viewfinders ...
Posted by George Lazarette on 19/10/2004 - 12:45
S4 memory 'locked'
Thanks John - I had a go at formatting the internal memory but that is not possible either - from the format command (with all the dire warnings about deleting data) the camera snaps back to "built-in Memory full" or "No images or sound" - depending on the mode I started in. I hooked the camera ...
Posted by davidpsd on 20/10/2004 - 08:24
S4 memory 'locked'
When you connect the camera to the computer it is effectively an external drive, so you could use your PC or Mac to format it, in theory at least. As it is no longer possible, I guess back to the dealer (if it's under warranty in the UK the dealer is responsible) or otherwise straight back to Pe...
Posted by johnriley on 20/10/2004 - 08:41
S4 memory 'locked'
Hi John - thanks, I really appreciate your troubling to reply. I agree in theory it should be OK to reformat the memory from a Mac - but I was hesitatnt because by default it's a DOS disk, and the Mac will apply an "alien" format. Maybe that doesn't matter if the camera just writes pictures to i...
Posted by davidpsd on 20/10/2004 - 09:09
S4 memory 'locked'
Only a thought, but have you changed the startup picture? This could be filling up the internal memory, and is a protected file :?: Try changing this back to the default startup screen.
Posted by general_mayhem on 20/10/2004 - 13:54
S4 memory 'locked'
Hi - thanks, mon General, but I don't think we even knew about startup pictures (I use the term "we" advisedly: I don't get my hands on this camera very often). I wanted to end the thread positively. The recharged battery was enough to bring the lens back in (phew). Once I'd dug out the recei...
Posted by davidpsd on 21/10/2004 - 10:10
Decision, decisions
I'm just experimenting with my new *istDS and 18-55mm Pentax zoom. It can produce A3 prints that are absolutely fine - do you need more than this? As far as I can tell the *istD and *istDS use the same or a very similar chip and the quality should be pretty much identical. The *istDS does not nee...
Posted by johnriley on 08/01/2005 - 06:26
what would you do?
It strikes me as just a little odd that you are focusing on building up a range of equipment when you have not as yet made much money from photography. Are you sure that you have focused on the right area? What type of photography do you feel best qualified at? Where are you intending to focus (no p...
Posted by kyber on 29/11/2004 - 11:53
istD and Microdrives
Just a thought? Where did you get the microdrive from? There are a lot of Hitachi microdrives that were removed from the Creative MP3 player but only the earlier versions work as Hitachi did not like this cheap back-channel to market and rendered the interface that the cameras depend on inoperati...
Posted by kyber on 29/11/2004 - 10:11
istD and Microdrives
Thanks For all the replies folks. Matt: The *istD handles both FAT16 and FAT32 without any problems, all my CF cards have been formated at one time or another on my PC in FAT32 and I have absolutely no problems. It is possible to format 4GB in FAT16 on WinXP PC, works fine between the card rea...
Posted by Anonymous on 29/11/2004 - 19:42
K lens on DS
Hi people, I still don't clearly understand something crucial. If I have some old manual focus third party K-mount lenses (with aperture rings and NO A setting) that I wish to use on a *ist DS, will I only be able to achieve a correct exposure through trial and error in the manual setting? Or wi...
Posted by Anonymous on 14/02/2005 - 19:13
More sensor cleaning - beware the blower!
Hi Guys just a note to tell you of the woes I've had this week with my *iSTD and how I solved the problem. One of the first things I bought following the purchase of my new camera was a new blower which i bought from Jessops - a model called the 'Hurricane' - it looked suitably big and powerful. I ...
Posted by stanwax on 03/12/2004 - 22:14
Shutter problems. Any ideas before my *istD goes back?
The exposures of my *istD have gone somewhat completely hatstand. I have been getting odd pictures that were really burned out overexposed every now and then but thought it was just me getting used to the metering modes of the camera. Anyway over the weekend it seems to have gone nutty altogether an...
Posted by stanwax on 16/12/2004 - 18:04
Shutter problems. Any ideas before my *istD goes back?
I was wondering when someone would ask how i measured the speeds :) Basically its very simple - if you have the right gear.... I shine a beam of light into the camera which reflects off the sensor to a photo diode wired in series with a resistor to a power supply. I then use a digital storage os...
Posted by stanwax on 20/12/2004 - 18:33
Shutter problems. Any ideas before my *istD goes back?
can you give us some more info to go on. What settings, iso, green auto, p, av. tv, m. Metering setting spot centre matrix. Lens was is set to `A` position. Take it compensation = 0 Can you cross ref the metering result the cam gives with either a seperate handheld meter or other cam? Jayson
Posted by Ardent on 17/12/2004 - 13:59
Shutter problems. Any ideas before my *istD goes back?
Hi Jayson please check out the following link it should hopefully give you all the info and you will see samples of the pictures the camera is currently taking and yes the compensation is zero. One slightly worrying thing is that i spoke to pentax this morning and was told 'the guy that ...
Posted by stanwax on 17/12/2004 - 16:42
Shutter problems. Any ideas before my *istD goes back?
You didn't mention how you measured the shutter speeds, but if the figures are correct, it looks like you have a dodgy/sticky shutter curtain. That would explain all the overexposures too. Also, there's no information about differing apertures. Have you tried to fix the shutter speed and vary the...
Posted by MattMatic on 20/12/2004 - 18:15
Shutter problems. Any ideas before my *istD goes back?
Stan, Thanks for the explanation ;) As an electronics engineer and firmware coder, I know exactly what you mean! Hope it all gets sorted. I've been well pleased with my *ist-D :D Matt
Posted by MattMatic on 21/12/2004 - 06:36
