Pentax remote Assistant and RAW

I have been playing with the remote assistant and once I realized you needed to open as administrator when running Vista it seems to work well but not with RAW.pef.

RAW.dng and all jpeg modes seems to work most of the time, but RAW.pef fails every time.

I have a feeling something to do with camera buffer using a K10D.

I note with my Nikon D7000 it saves to camera in RAW and to PC as jpeg but with Pentax nothing seems to be saved to camera card.

I wonder if some setting will allow it to use card to save to? Once it goes wrong I have to close program with Task Manager unplug camera and switch off then start all over again. Idea was to use the interval timer but if crashes so often unless set to jpeg can't seem to get it to work.

I find easy to forget to check camera and if I go to jpeg running computer program it stays on jpeg once I stop running it. This can also be an advantage as in user mode I can set it to green with 100 - 1600 ISO and it will stay that way after unplugging so camera will auto move to 1600 when required.

Would love to hear how others have found the program.

I have installed the remote assistant on a older slower laptop still Vista and with that one it will work with Pentax RAW however it still has a problem in bulb mode taking a series of photos. Even with Jpeg lowest size with bulb it failed.

I set up the camera and PC to take a series of pictures of back garden and it started OK then failed. It would seem light is the real problem if there is loads of light it works well as light levels fall it fails. The smaller the file size the lower the light can go but even on smallest Jpeg it will work with 1/6 second seems the limit any exposure times below that and the transfer time between camera and PC means it times out.

This is not just Pentax the Nikon did the same but since the Nikon D7000 has a very high ISO it ran longer than Pentax before it failed. Clearly time to use the f2 fixed length lens.

I would love to hear how others have found the program? I had big ideas but seems back to remote shutter release with lock and watch the second hand.