Pentax Japan now have this download on their site.

It just appears to be a bug fix for the GPS connection:


"Corrected method for obtain GPS data when developing RAW images that is contain GPS data on Version 1.10.

*If you have already updated to Version1.10, we are very sorry for this inconvenience. Please update to Version 1.11."

Glyn

Thanks for the update.

A Google hunt found various forum threads with people complaining about a very similar fault, in around March, introduced when Adobe flash 10.1 was released so I was rather hoping that 10.3 would fix your problem.

I don't use IE8 very much and mine had Adobe flash player 9 on it. It had the same problem as you report but Photobucket also popped up a message telling me that it required version 10. 10.3.181.34 made it work fine on mine.

It might be worth checking in the IE8 add-ons window in my above post to check that the Adobe Flash object is enabled (I had it disabled at one point which caused the same problem), but otherwise apologies as I can't think of anything else to try.

Glyn

Edit: here is the forum I found with a similar issue

Thanks Chris that sounds like a really useful tip which I must try. I had been using centre focus and found that I had to keep tracking the subject well before the point where I wanted to take a shot just to stop the camera focus hunting. Certainly if it did start to focus hunt the quick-shift was a life-saver.

I think your comments just reinforce my disappointment with the article not really covering any of these issues or the techniques that you raise.

Here is one of my attempts at a fast-moving subject although I think the lighting is a bit of an issue:

[IMG]http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w20/GlynM/Farnborough%202010/IMGP6028-small.jpg[/IMG]

Glyn

Well Mike to be honest I don't think you are missing anything. I found the article a little disappointing. It is quite short and seems to be aimed at the beginner or someone who has not tried shooting aircraft, particularly at air-shows, before. I thought that the tips that it gave are largely constrained to choosing a good spot, making sure that you have charged your battery, using anti-shake and that you have enough storage space on your card. All of which I'm sure is embedded in the subconscious of anyone with half the experience of yourself.

I was rather hoping it was going give a few more tips on shooting the fast moving stuff like picking the focus point, how avoid the frustration of end-to-end auto-focus hunting, the advantages of having a quick-shift lens, like the DA55-300, possibly using a mono-pod and a bit more detail on what compromises need to be made on things like the aperture and iso settings to achieve decent shutter speeds. Here the article was limited to an example using a 18-200mm lens in TAV mode to achieve a shutter speed to freeze a rotating propeller. I also thought the presented example looked a little noisy.

Glyn

I think I have found the issue.

For the Photobucket ctrl downloads to work in IE8 you need to have the latest Adobe flash player add-on, version 10.3.181.34.

You can check this in IE8 by going through Tools then Manage Add-ons and look for the version number of the Shockwave Flash Object:

[IMG]http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w20/GlynM/Computing/IE8add-ons-small.jpg[/IMG]

I found that my IE8 was on a very old version but once I had upgraded it to the above version the ctrl button worked fine when selecting multiple images.

Downloading the update from Adobe was troublesome. There are different versions for different browsers so you need the one for IE. It also seemed to download very, very slowly (I gave up after an hour). There does not appear to be many mirror sites for Adobe downloads but I found a fast one here and although the site title suggests that it is an old version it does appear to be the latest version.

On the above web page just click on the "download Flash Player 10.3.181.34 (IE) (2.98 MB)" link next to the disc icon.

Save it somewhere and then double click on it to run it. If you are worried about where it is coming from then scan it with your virus checker before you run it however it worked fine for me.

I hope this helps,

Glyn

Ok thanks, it was a long shot.

Having a quick look at my Photobucket account I find that I have exactly the same problem as you when using IE8 but in Firefox (5.0) and Opera (11.01) it works fine (I'm also using XP SP3).

Glyn

I'm not so familiar with IE8 only using it where Firefox fails but you could try clearing out the cache and Photobucket cookie to see if it makes any difference.

Having a look at IE8 suggests that, with care, you can do this selectively and preserve useful stuff like the stored list of passwords.

To clear out the cache go through Tools/Internet Options and under browsing history press the delete button. This brings up a window with the delete options and untick everything except "Temporary Internet Files" and press the delete button.

To remove the cookie for Photobucket go though Tools/Internet Options and under browsing history press "Settings". This brings up a panel called "Temporary Internet Files and History Settings". Press the "View Files" button and hunt out the cookie for Photobucket. Right click on it and delete it.

Having done this it is probably worth restarting IE8.

No promises but this is equivalent to my Firefox long-shot and might just fix the problem.

Glyn

This is a long-shot and certainly will not help Bernard as he is using IE8 but I find that when having trouble with Firefox it is worth clearing out the cache and removing the cookie for the offending site. Possibly if the Photobucket site has been upgraded it can have trouble with locally cached information from before the upgrade.

To clear the cache in Firefox go through Tools/Options/Advanced/Network and then select "Clear Now".

To remove the cookie from Firefox go through Tools/Options/Privacy then under History select "Remove Individual Cookies" and delete the entry for Photobucket.

Glyn

Edit: added "tools" to the cache & cookie paths

I have a lot of lenses which fall into two groups. A smallish group that I actually use and a much larger group that is a sort of collection, including 4 different mirror lenses.

Some of this collection may have been on one of my cameras only once.

However for me the most used is easy: The Samsung version of DFA 100 macro. Certainly at this time of year it is being used almost daily to photograph flowers but also gets used a lot to shoot the things my wife sells on ebay and other places.

My least used lens could be a FA 28-200 (similar in size & weight to the DA*16-50) because for some reason, lost in time, I appear to have two of these.

However my most ignored lens is probably the FAJ 28-80, bought on impluse, boxed, for £15 at a boot fair, which being thin, silver painted, plastic, feels and looks very cheap. I can't face selling it so I must get around to giving it to a charity shop or just putting it in a skip .

Glyn

Don't forget you can use optical preview (beyond "On" on the main switch) to judge depth of field for the selected lens aperture although with the lens well stopped down the image in the view-finder will probably be too dark to be useful.

Glyn