Time Laps - Pentax K-x
Posted 25/05/2011 - 21:49 - Helpful Comment
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Have you disabled auto-power-down/screen saver/any power saving setting on the laptop? At what interval are the exposures?
PK-Tether works fine for me on a Win7 laptop. There is also a DIY infrared timelapse remote - you need a timelapse cable remote and a $4 infrared remote from dealextreme (for example).
PK-Tether works fine for me on a Win7 laptop. There is also a DIY infrared timelapse remote - you need a timelapse cable remote and a $4 infrared remote from dealextreme (for example).
Posted 25/05/2011 - 22:14
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As usual it's the simplest things. I haven't tried that, but that's probably what it is. Thanks.
Was testing out the Pk-tether as I'm thinking about getting a netbook for travelling.
Was testing out the Pk-tether as I'm thinking about getting a netbook for travelling.
Posted 26/05/2011 - 06:23
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it's "lapse", please
I haven't really used PK tether in anger, I can check maybe later one of the bodies under win7. Is it running as Admin? Did you change the save location? How fast is the disk it's saving to?
Bret
I haven't really used PK tether in anger, I can check maybe later one of the bodies under win7. Is it running as Admin? Did you change the save location? How fast is the disk it's saving to?
Bret
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my kit: K3, K5, K-01, DA 18-55, D-FA50 macro, Siggy 30/1.4, 100-300/f4, 70-200/2.8, Samsung 12-24/f4, Tamron 17-50, and lots of other bits.
my kit: K3, K5, K-01, DA 18-55, D-FA50 macro, Siggy 30/1.4, 100-300/f4, 70-200/2.8, Samsung 12-24/f4, Tamron 17-50, and lots of other bits.
Posted 27/05/2011 - 20:18
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Sorry to take so long to check back. It's been a busy time.
I think I've sorted out the problem. Firstly the power off was set for 1 minute, so .I disabled that. Still didn't work after that. As I was only playing around I hadn't set to save the photos, so the buffer was filling up, with nowhere to put the photos. Once I set it to auto save, there was no problem.
Thanks for your help guys.
I think I've sorted out the problem. Firstly the power off was set for 1 minute, so .I disabled that. Still didn't work after that. As I was only playing around I hadn't set to save the photos, so the buffer was filling up, with nowhere to put the photos. Once I set it to auto save, there was no problem.
Thanks for your help guys.
Posted 12/06/2011 - 18:12
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I tried PK tether and remote assistant today in anger with both bodies. Boy, am I disappointed.
Remote Assistant: 99 shot limitation. ARGH!
PK:
- crashed the K5 multiple times
- no limitations on the amount of shots but after a while, the buffer was "full" - autosave was set and there's space on the disk. Yes, it was RAW, but still...
- this then locked up the K5 three times while I was trying to work out what was going on.
- on the K10, it sometimes took two shots instead of one. It sort of worked for a while, there, too, and then decided to lock up on me on the laptop as well.
I'm very disappointed, I wanted to shoot a load of cloud movements for testing 1/30, 1/60, 1/125 and (whatever) in animation on both the K10 and K5 as I happened to have a storm coming in. No dice.
I'll see if I can get in touch with the PK Tether guy, it's got great potential and I'd love to be able to use it effectively.
Bret
Remote Assistant: 99 shot limitation. ARGH!
PK:
- crashed the K5 multiple times
- no limitations on the amount of shots but after a while, the buffer was "full" - autosave was set and there's space on the disk. Yes, it was RAW, but still...
- this then locked up the K5 three times while I was trying to work out what was going on.
- on the K10, it sometimes took two shots instead of one. It sort of worked for a while, there, too, and then decided to lock up on me on the laptop as well.
I'm very disappointed, I wanted to shoot a load of cloud movements for testing 1/30, 1/60, 1/125 and (whatever) in animation on both the K10 and K5 as I happened to have a storm coming in. No dice.
I'll see if I can get in touch with the PK Tether guy, it's got great potential and I'd love to be able to use it effectively.
Bret
my pics: link
my kit: K3, K5, K-01, DA 18-55, D-FA50 macro, Siggy 30/1.4, 100-300/f4, 70-200/2.8, Samsung 12-24/f4, Tamron 17-50, and lots of other bits.
my kit: K3, K5, K-01, DA 18-55, D-FA50 macro, Siggy 30/1.4, 100-300/f4, 70-200/2.8, Samsung 12-24/f4, Tamron 17-50, and lots of other bits.
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Kirkintilloch,
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I tried using PK-Tether, but for some reason it stops after 7 exposures.
Using it on Windows 7 laptop, so not sure if it's compatible, although I would have thought it would be.
Has anyone any thoughts either on Pk-Tether or any other way of doing time laps ?