Shame they closed the museum and laid off all those people.
Now they will have to recruit to expand on what they've got.

Wow! some excellent shots. The Mantis that looks like a flower
is incredible

They seem to work on just about everything. Eye-Fi won't say they
do because the camera hasn't got certain facilities such as being
able to tag favourites etc.

The card is self contained, all the camera does is save it as
it does to a normal card and when the Eye-Fi chip in the card
see's it it tries to upload over the Wi-Fi.

Great piece of kit. They even use them in CF adapters on
Nikons.

Does Pentax account for about 53% of Hoya's sales. If that's
the case I can't see what they keep whinging about and why they
want to sell.

I've no idea what you want Stefan.... apart from it not having
anything to do with photography

Simple solution to something 100m away is a pair of binoculars
I suppose you could rig up a videosender?

In all this talk about tethering I've never yet heard anyone mention
DOF preview on the computer screen, which is one of the most
useful things that can be done with it

Does anyone know of an EDITOR that will watch a Folder for
a JPG to be downloaded and then LOAD it so that I can read the
RGB values to check the white balance? Or a viewer that reads
RGB? Plenty viewers load the file just for viewing automatically.
The Canon software can run an external BAT file and pass the
filename on to launch another app.

Looks very nice Matt You will have to practice
how to meter with it quickly or you'll never catch
anything

The Eye-fi card will do 99% of what you want from tethering
and there's no leads to fall over

It will also send a copy to someone else over the net for comments
before you finish the shoot.

If your using it in the studio you won't be controlling much anyway
Your flash will probably be at 1/180th and you won't change it.
If your handholding the camera you have to carefully put it down
change the aperture etc. on the computer... pick up the camera
again.... much easier to just change on the camera anyway.
The camera can be fired from 100m away with a wireless remote.

If your just taking the shots to show someone else a WiFi card
does that and you can be 5 - 10M away from the computer.
They don't even have to be in the studio, which is handy
if there isn't much room.

I use the WiFi card mainly to check exposure and white balance.

Until Pentax bring out a way of fully programming the camera
from the computer by means of a SDK or even script language
(like Canon have) tethering will be of very limited use.

7z is very slow uncompressing. Jpegs are better just stored
not compressed that way both storing and unstoring takes as
long as just copying them. WinRar can handle 7z as well as
Rar, Zip etc.

An Eye-Fi card is a better option anyway.... no need for
any leads.

Just noticed:

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"I did 2 series of shots per (manual) lens.
I defocused them before refocusing them again,
using my Haoda focusing prism screen.
I have published the two sets of shots
for comparison. ISO100 for everyone.
All the lens had hoods on."
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Two shots is not really enough, but at least
he re-focused. Non of them seem to have the roof in
focus?