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Comment by ChrisR posted on topaz B&W very good at 10/10/2011 - 10:25
Good sharp focus throughout, yes the second lion image you posted is a better crop.
Take care.
Take care.
Comment by ChrisR posted on My first zoo visit in France at 10/10/2011 - 10:13
Hi Jeffery.
Take care.
Take care.
Comment by ChrisR posted on Hi, just joined at 10/10/2011 - 09:32
Hi Mark.
Take care.
Take care.
Comment by ChrisR posted on Hi! Just joined! :) at 09/10/2011 - 09:41
kff wrote:
- develop Modular system with external modules (like GXR but more split)
... split body, sensor and lens units ... we can use body when we travel in other case we can use tablet (Android, iPad etc.) for directing with bigger display (important),
it is real revolution .. not only mirrorless.
I think that people like Jobs would add interchangable lens modul with sensor to tablets and smartphones
and after several Years ...who will be Pentax Ricoh / Nikon / Canon etc !!!
There is possiible trasfer data from sensor to external unit,
changed some hardware by software emulation and it would do what we need
(e.g. ARM processor and graphical cards or develop special photo clone of tablets with DSP processor)
... and try it in the nature and in the level ground .. if You need some expensive equipment (special tripod) for fixing then it is'nt well done
. .. I think that solution is in the controlling device, which we would use normal non expensive tripod
and all functions we would change from control unit via tablet or smartphone without moving tripod ....
- adapt camera hardware components to ICT technical standard (all components and add other like wi-fi, BT3, GPS etc.)
- keep technical evolution
- more software developping and benefits
- buy Metz or Elinchrom or both company (and wirreles solution) ...
- try re-value partnership with Samsung or make partnership it with other ICT company like Apple, Google, IBM, Nokia, Oracle etc.
Poll question would be sometimes so stupid ... but it wouldn't be in the czech language
thanks K
No thanks “Ricoh”, we don’t need fancy gadgets or gismos. - develop Modular system with external modules (like GXR but more split)
... split body, sensor and lens units ... we can use body when we travel in other case we can use tablet (Android, iPad etc.) for directing with bigger display (important),
it is real revolution .. not only mirrorless.
I think that people like Jobs would add interchangable lens modul with sensor to tablets and smartphones
and after several Years ...who will be Pentax Ricoh / Nikon / Canon etc !!!
There is possiible trasfer data from sensor to external unit,
changed some hardware by software emulation and it would do what we need
(e.g. ARM processor and graphical cards or develop special photo clone of tablets with DSP processor)
... and try it in the nature and in the level ground .. if You need some expensive equipment (special tripod) for fixing then it is'nt well done
. .. I think that solution is in the controlling device, which we would use normal non expensive tripod
and all functions we would change from control unit via tablet or smartphone without moving tripod ....
- adapt camera hardware components to ICT technical standard (all components and add other like wi-fi, BT3, GPS etc.)
- keep technical evolution
- more software developping and benefits
- buy Metz or Elinchrom or both company (and wirreles solution) ...
- try re-value partnership with Samsung or make partnership it with other ICT company like Apple, Google, IBM, Nokia, Oracle etc.
Poll question would be sometimes so stupid ... but it wouldn't be in the czech language
thanks K
Well developed cameras and lens, is what real photo enthusiasts require.
Keep it simple.
Many thanks.
Comment by ChrisR posted on Dear Pentax Ricoh at 09/10/2011 - 09:18
Another thanks for posting this link, very interesting.
Just tried my K5, the display does rotate to the correct way up, so I assume I have the latest firmware.
Just tried my K5, the display does rotate to the correct way up, so I assume I have the latest firmware.
Comment by ChrisR posted on K5 Jamming and locking up ? at 06/10/2011 - 11:37
ChrisA wrote:
I know from my own general experience that sometimes, what I imagine I did isn't necessarily what the evidence shows I ought to have remembered doing
If you wrote down complete and accurate instructions, were confident that I was capable of following them, and knew me for the careful and methodical individual I often am, would you rather I followed them, or someone you didn't know who works in Curry's and is therefore 'qualified' to work with electrical equipment?
Bottom line: if you follow the instructions to the letter, it very rarely goes wrong. If this wasn't true, Pentax would not supply firmware upgrades for us eejits to apply ourselves, since they'd be deluged with busted cameras to fix.
But if it does go wrong, you send the camera in, and they fix it, and it costs a bit. It is not an irretrievable situation.
My point is, the fear is disproportionate.
This is going know were, I have to accept that, yourself and others are comfortable in carrying out firmware upgrades, and that’s fine.ChrisR wrote:
I am sure that “Lynton” whose post restarted this debate, would agree, after turning his K20, into an expensive door stop.
Well, with respect, we have no information as to whether he did it right or not. All we know is that it went wrong. Doubtless he's sure he followed the instructions correctly, and I'm sure there's no video that can verify this. So, no disrespect to Lynton, we can't know for certain. I am sure that “Lynton” whose post restarted this debate, would agree, after turning his K20, into an expensive door stop.
I know from my own general experience that sometimes, what I imagine I did isn't necessarily what the evidence shows I ought to have remembered doing
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...closing of the breakers on a high volt/current, power distribution lines, without fear, because in that situation, for me, there would not be the unknown. Could I respectfully ask, would you have the confidence to do that.
Is this the right question? ...closing of the breakers on a high volt/current, power distribution lines, without fear, because in that situation, for me, there would not be the unknown. Could I respectfully ask, would you have the confidence to do that.
If you wrote down complete and accurate instructions, were confident that I was capable of following them, and knew me for the careful and methodical individual I often am, would you rather I followed them, or someone you didn't know who works in Curry's and is therefore 'qualified' to work with electrical equipment?
Quote:
...read the instructions and carry out the procedure step by step, all is well until that one little glitch occurs, then is to late, realising, I do not have the necessary skill level to correct or form a workaround to get me out of the sticky stuff.
The thing is, none of us does. If a firmware upgrade goes wrong, and the camera won't switch on, I doubt any of us can sort it out without sending the camera back for service. Personally, I'd be insane to try - I can't even see how to open it up, let alone work on the innards....read the instructions and carry out the procedure step by step, all is well until that one little glitch occurs, then is to late, realising, I do not have the necessary skill level to correct or form a workaround to get me out of the sticky stuff.
Bottom line: if you follow the instructions to the letter, it very rarely goes wrong. If this wasn't true, Pentax would not supply firmware upgrades for us eejits to apply ourselves, since they'd be deluged with busted cameras to fix.
But if it does go wrong, you send the camera in, and they fix it, and it costs a bit. It is not an irretrievable situation.
My point is, the fear is disproportionate.
As I don’t have any skill level or experience in this field, I will not be attempting to carry out such an operation myself, and will not be shifted in my conviction that this is a service, that should be offered by camera suppliers, but I realise as firmware/software is not an exact science, this will never happen.
It does seem strange that “Lynton” and myself are the only ones prepared to hold up our hands, as not being comfortable in carrying out this procedure, may be its just the two of us, on this forum.
Stating the a person working in an electrical retail outlet is qualified to work on electrical equipment, has no relevance to, him or her being competent to work on electrical power distribution. Nor would I accept a person to work on power distribution equipment, however detailed the instructions were, unless that person was fully qualified to carry out such work, to do so would be extremely irresponsible.
I apologise for this thread going a little off topic.
Take care.
Comment by ChrisR posted on K5 Jamming and locking up ? at 06/10/2011 - 10:27
ChrisA wrote:
- To be able to read
- To be able to follow simple instructions one at a time, and without making mistakes
The instructions are of the nature "download file", "insert SD card", "press button", etc, none of which is any more complicated than things that anyone that uses a digital camera or a computer does all the time.
However, before you get all affronted by an implication that I assure you I am not making, it is undoubtedly the case that the consequences of doing a firmware upgrade wrong can be serious.
Accidentally stuffing up the copying of three images from a card to the computer, and turning your expensive camera into an attractive paperweight are not the same sort of thing at all, even though the skills required for each are almost identical.
It becomes an issue of weighing up the benefit of the new firmware (does it add features you need, or contain undocumented fixes for features you already have?), against your confidence in not making a mistake.
The issue is further complicated by the confidence you have in the guy in the camera shop that offers to do it for you.
Personally, I have more confidence in myself, than some random guy in a camera shop (Chris@SRS excepted), to do a firmware upgrade, or indeed go anywhere near my sensor.
Having a 'guarantee' that they'll get it sorted if it goes wrong, is all very well, but sending cameras away takes notoriously long, and they often come back in notoriously unexpected conditions too.
So there's lots to weigh up. I can understand the trepidation (and I bet there isn't a single one of us that have done loads of firmware upgrades, that doesn't look a little nervously at the progress bar every single time).
But getting someone else of dubious or at least unproven competence to do it is not necessarily the panacea you seek.
Yes I agree, read the instructions and carry out the procedure step by step, all is well until that one little glitch occurs, then is to late, realising, I do not have the necessary skill level to correct or form a workaround to get me out of the sticky stuff. ChrisR wrote:
When ever I have brought this subject up before on this forum, suggesting that the camera suppliers should offer firmware upgrade as a service, I have been advised that this operation is so simple, that anyone using a digital camera should be able to do it.
The skills required for a firmware upgrade are essentially these:When ever I have brought this subject up before on this forum, suggesting that the camera suppliers should offer firmware upgrade as a service, I have been advised that this operation is so simple, that anyone using a digital camera should be able to do it.
- To be able to read
- To be able to follow simple instructions one at a time, and without making mistakes
The instructions are of the nature "download file", "insert SD card", "press button", etc, none of which is any more complicated than things that anyone that uses a digital camera or a computer does all the time.
However, before you get all affronted by an implication that I assure you I am not making, it is undoubtedly the case that the consequences of doing a firmware upgrade wrong can be serious.
Accidentally stuffing up the copying of three images from a card to the computer, and turning your expensive camera into an attractive paperweight are not the same sort of thing at all, even though the skills required for each are almost identical.
It becomes an issue of weighing up the benefit of the new firmware (does it add features you need, or contain undocumented fixes for features you already have?), against your confidence in not making a mistake.
The issue is further complicated by the confidence you have in the guy in the camera shop that offers to do it for you.
Personally, I have more confidence in myself, than some random guy in a camera shop (Chris@SRS excepted), to do a firmware upgrade, or indeed go anywhere near my sensor.
Having a 'guarantee' that they'll get it sorted if it goes wrong, is all very well, but sending cameras away takes notoriously long, and they often come back in notoriously unexpected conditions too.
So there's lots to weigh up. I can understand the trepidation (and I bet there isn't a single one of us that have done loads of firmware upgrades, that doesn't look a little nervously at the progress bar every single time).
But getting someone else of dubious or at least unproven competence to do it is not necessarily the panacea you seek.
I am sure that “Lynton” whose post restarted this debate, would agree, after turning his K20, into an expensive door stop.
It’s the fear of the unknown.
I am now retired, but I would still have the confidence to over see the closing of the breakers on a high volt/current, power distribution lines, without fear, because in that situation, for me, there would not be the unknown. Could I respectfully ask, would you have the confidence to do that.
It is horses for courses, and I am afraid this horse, has a phobia of delicate electronics, and doesn’t mind admitting it.
Take care.
Comment by ChrisR posted on K5 Jamming and locking up ? at 05/10/2011 - 20:34
Hi Ian.
Whichever colour temperature light tubes you go for, try to obtain “Triphosphor” as apposed to “Halophosphor”.
The “Halophosphor“, start to loose efficiency from the first time used, but the “Triphosphor”, will maintain efficiency at almost 100%, for there total life span.
Retail outlets will probably not know the difference, but a good electrical wholesaler like CEF or QVS, should be able to supply, “Triphosphor”.
Take care.
Whichever colour temperature light tubes you go for, try to obtain “Triphosphor” as apposed to “Halophosphor”.
The “Halophosphor“, start to loose efficiency from the first time used, but the “Triphosphor”, will maintain efficiency at almost 100%, for there total life span.
Retail outlets will probably not know the difference, but a good electrical wholesaler like CEF or QVS, should be able to supply, “Triphosphor”.
Take care.
Comment by ChrisR posted on Lightbox Photography at 04/10/2011 - 15:59
Hi David.
Take care.
Take care.
Comment by ChrisR posted on New K-R owner at 04/10/2011 - 09:48
A good sharp set of images though.
Take care.