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A Confession

Gamka
Posted 10/06/2013 - 11:58 Link
I was at an event in Germany on Saturday - the location was somewhere that photography is NOT normally permitted but in certain cases permission is granted subject to certain conditions about what/who/where pictures are taken and a review of all memory cards and their contents before and after. One of the party was granted permission for the event - not me, so no camera.

Part way through the person with permission had a few problems and I was asked to take over for a while - but with his Canon 6D.

The Canon was a nice camera - but heavy and in some ways not as intuitive as Pentax but my experience allowed me to work without issues. It had a couple of nice features which were very useful - it was possible to edit (basics plus a little) and crop the images in the camera and then use the internal WiFi capability to send the images direct to a small printer located in the room; and GPS logging was integral.

It would be great if Pentax included GPS location/logging and a WiFI interface for direct printing in future bodies such as the K-5 II replacement.

Would I change? No, but would love to have the enhancements.
YORKSBOY
Posted 10/06/2013 - 13:15 Link
This would be a nice feature - perhaps it could be built into the grip?
To be honest I hardly ever use the grip - battery life is good without, and I like the compactness of the K5 - but if a grip offered GPS and other enhancements I would be tempted
Algernon
Posted 10/06/2013 - 13:27 Link
There's already a GPS gizmo and Wi-Fi Cards.....
What's the matter with them

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Pentax K-1 + K-5 and some other stuff

Algi
Gamka
Posted 10/06/2013 - 13:36 Link
Algernon wrote:
There's already a GPS gizmo and Wi-Fi Cards.....
What's the matter with them

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But not an integral part of the body (or grip).

Can you re-level an image, crop to size and then print directly? No. but the event on Saturday showed how extremely useful it was.
MrB
Posted 10/06/2013 - 16:29 Link
The extra in-camera editing options might be useful occasionally, but I'm not really bothered about GPS and WiFi in the body - it seems likely that they would eat up battery power. I like the compact bodies and long battery life of the K-5 series, so I wouldn't mind if GPS and WiFi were incorporated into the battery grip, as I would probably never use one!

Philip
WaypointCharlie
Posted 10/06/2013 - 17:14 Link
I've often thought it would be nice if the camera had WiFi or Bluetooth for transferring images to the PC. It doesn't have to be enabled all the time, just for transfer. I'm worried that the micro USB connector will be the first thing to wear out on my camera.
Algernon
Posted 10/06/2013 - 17:54 Link
One big advantage with the Eye-Fi card is that if you have a lot of images to transfer, you can just plug the card into a PC reader and the Eye-Fi software will find it and import all the files very quickly at USB Speed. You don't have to touch anything it's automatic. I don't do it but I assume that it will also forward them to the internet.

I use a free program called Netmeter to show an internet speed/time graph it also shows Eye-Fi card acivity.... speed... how many files transferred etc.

http://www.metal-machine.de/readerror/

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Pentax K-1 + K-5 and some other stuff

Algi
Smeggypants
Posted 10/06/2013 - 23:42 Link
Algernon wrote:
There's already a GPS gizmo and Wi-Fi Cards.....
What's the matter with them

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Yup and no need to note how much it costs.

I use an old blackberry phone Miss Smeggy donated to me with a free GPS app on it. Get home load the GPX file into Lightroom and I can then GPS tag ANY camera I've been using. I ain't paying £500 for TWO pentax GPS units for my 2 K-5s.

I shall be most disappointed if the next Pentax DSLR Doesn't have integral GPS. There's no excuse given every mobile phone has it now
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JohnX
Posted 11/06/2013 - 09:33 Link
Smeggypants wrote:

I use an old blackberry phone Miss Smeggy donated to me with a free GPS app on it. Get home load the GPX file into Lightroom and I can then GPS tag ANY camera I've been using.

What do you do exactly? Whats the app? Is it something peculiar to Blackberrys?
Edited by JohnX: 11/06/2013 - 09:34
Gamka
Posted 11/06/2013 - 09:41 Link
A lot of you are missing the points - having integral WiFi means you can transfer any or every image file, not just those on a WiFi card. You can directly interface to a Printer, PC or WAP. It could allow connection to a mobile phone from where you could use a 3/4G connection or maybe another camera which could open up some interesting possibilities. A WiFi module built into the camera should cost just a few pounds extra.

GPS - you would not need to use it but could turn it on when required and again just a small additional cost.

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