Welcome Yamiuchi, this is a great and helpful forum.
You will get some fantastic help and advice from here.
Feel at home and get yourself comfy as this is highly addictive

Hi everyone

Got my head down and managed to get to maplins yesterday and with some great and kind help from Mattmatic got a list of electronics bits and pieces with a view to try to assemble an IR sensor kit to trigger my flash and also the shutter for my K20.

I am now looking for some diagrams so that I can try to put it together, something like one of link or if someone has a better option please let me know.

Another thing that got me thinking while shuffling my old stuff in the shed, I ran into various PIR and motion sensors that I had for my old wireless house alarm. Would I be able to use one of these if I stripped it and tried the connections? I know the detection angle would be very wide for the PIR sensors but I definitely would be able to work around it.
Any ideas please? I am particularly keen in knowing if this wouldn't damage the camera circuits as I would be connecting to the PC socket to trigger the shutter for some of the experimental work I want to do.

Many thanks

Amin

LOL, Paul, that made me giggle early morning, I was quite tempted yesterday night to throw a comment such as yours but then refrained myself in case I stir something I shouldn't. .
But I see it doesn't need to be monday for you to bring your humouristic side to the surface and go for it huh? .

Good one,
And Cloudhunter, hope you take note of Martin's advice and follow it so you can develop more your artistic skills. Its comments help and advice from members like him and many others here who take the time and effort to evaluate our images and steer us to the right paths artistically and technically for that matter.

Good luck

welcome to the forum Jacko

You have portfolio with some stunning images. Keep them coming,

Found in the Menu the selection process. Thanks for that.

So as the display shows a battery is about to finish and now I can go to the info button and see which one, when one battery drains out completely then the next one takes over? Is that how it works automatically? Will I then start seeing the battery sign in the display full again or it will always show as empty as the spare one takes over?

I guess I could just try and see but might be quicker finding out if someone has the experience already

Thank you

I really hope they do this.
In fact I was very surprised at first when I got to know that if something goes faulty you can't call directly Pentax, but would have to go through the dealer where you bought the goods. I find it still a bit strange, of course unless I am missing something here too.

I would have thought that provided a receipt exists of the purchase, independent of the name that the receipt has been written to, I thought the manufacturer would cover the warranty.

Let's assume for example that I decide to move to Singapore a few months after buying all the goodies from SRS and spending a bomb, what if something goes wrong? Who do I turn to?

So I really hope as Mike says Pentax issues an International warranty which covers any repairs as long as the goods have been purchased from an authorised dealer.

Thanks Mike
I will go check the menu. I thought it should be something of the kind but I shuffled the menu, very quickly I must admit though, didn't seem to come up.
Will go check it again.
Thanks for that Mike

Thanks John, that helped

I am confused now. Since I have started using the battery grip and obviously it has a battery also, so please help me out here, how do I know which battery needs changing when I notice the charge starting to go off?
How do I know which battery needs charging? Whether the one in the grip or the one in the body?

Just wondering here as I sometimes think twice before resizing it 800 X 600 pixels.

I came across this, doesnt this mean now that as most screens are 1024 X 768 thats the size we should use now rather than 800 X 600 pixels?
Unless I am missing something here, please someone enlighten me.

Thanks

Amin