Many thanks John.

Glyn

Your loss then not mine, after all you asked the question, and from my direction adds doubt the validity of your poll.

Glyn

Agreed. I have just found that as well. Definitely frustrating!

Even worse I have just contributed to a thread with a poll. Once you select an answer, and therefore can see the poll results, the poll takes up up a huge amount of vertical space adding to the amount of scrolling you need to do to get back to your new post.

If you want to see the amount of space a poll now demands try voting on this one here.

Glyn

Groan....
It is only just over a month since we last went round this discussion .

If you want to know my views on this recurring topic please read the previous thread which you can find here.

Glyn

I have to agree. I am finding I have to do a lot more scrolling to get around the Forum home screen. I am sure I used to get the whole forum home page on my screen.

When in a forum and then hitting the "mark all as read" button doing a "back" used to get me to the forum home page. It now needs two presses of the back button to achieve this.

Glyn

P.S. I am using two 1080 x 1920 (Full HD) 24" monitors.

My thoughts go out for you Eddie.

I had a narrow escape myself nearly three years ago which was quickly followed by a heart by-pass op.

I guess it is probably tough going at the moment but persevere because I am sure you will get there.

I look forward to seeing you take up your photography again.

Best regards,

Glyn

We have this sort of discussion often at my local photo club. At one end we have those that insist the image should be a true representation of what was in front of the camera at the time the shot was taken, making a record of something, and at the other end are those that see photography as just part of the process in creating a piece of art, something you might present or hang up for display.

I personally sit towards the art end of this argument. From my direction it all boils down to the object of the exercise. I guess it might be from my engineering background but I like to think about what I am trying to achieve, visualisation, then try and work out if it is possible and how I am going to do it, implementation.

Sometimes this might just mean get getting the camera in the right place, at the right time, and in the right conditions to take the shot. Even then as I am now converted to shooting in raw I will invariably tinker with the result in post production even if it is just something simple like correcting the white balance or a lens distortion.

At other times, for example if I am trying to create some sort of abstract, the process might necessitate some serious manipulation. Even just for macro shots I often resort to focus stacking which is a form of manipulation.

In any case I think what comes out of the camera is very rarely a true representation of what was in front of the camera as the resultant image has been influenced by the camera settings, lens choice, and the processing that takes place in the camera.

For example I recently discovered the short, free, instructional videos by Mike Browne. While I thought I understood the foreshortening of perspective you get with longer lenses I was impressed with the video that showed this in action. It kept a foreground element the same same size and position in the shot but switched between a wide angle and long lens to get completely different results in the background elements. If we consider that a true representation is what we see through our own eyes then probably the wide angle and long lens images are not true representations. (See the video here)

Again from my direction it is all down to what you are trying to achieve and if that involves post processing then that is fine with me.

Glyn

Fantastic. Good to know that it worked.

Glyn

I have just tried PK-Tether V0.7.0 on my K-7 and I was able to turn debug mode on & off.

My K-7 is firmware V1.13 and I ran PK-Tether from a Windows8.1 desktop.

I also had to turn off the camera Top LCD illumination, config menu screen 5 "29. LCD Panel Illumination" otherwise the top LCD was flashing which appears to be a known bug with PK-Tether.

The camera must have a memory card present.

This is what I tried:

Run PK-Tether.
Connect the K-7 to the PC using the USB cable.
Turn The camera on.
Under the the Debug mode menu bar entry select Camera debug mode on or off.
Close PK-Tether.
Turn the camera off.
Unplug the USB cable
Turn the camera back on again & check the LCD at start-up to see if it is in Debug mode or not.

And here is a screen dump:




I hope this helps,

Glyn

Not tried by me but the 3rd-party PK-Thether, tethering and remote control software for Pentax DSLRs, has buttons to turn debug mode on and off.

Details can be found here.

As always there is some risk involved but it might be worth investigation.

Glyn