Love them!
The cargo plane is amazing, that and the Aeroflot CCCP (USSR) plane.
Sure my sons will love these...
Matt

I'd use that custom option with caution
Do a test first, since I found on the K7 and pre that linking the two wouldn't always give the results you'd expect. It was a bit like centre weighted or spot metering, rather than evaluative-with-the-centre-moved.

Perhaps on the 77-segment metering dSLRs it does behave better... need to experiment

(One test is to compare Evaluative, Centre-Weighted, and Spot with centre focus selected on both custom settings.)

Matt

You've forgotten VAT & customs duty.
Even with VAT alone that's £447 vs £398 from SRS.

I know where I'd put my money

Matt

Going off topic...

Not much does, actually
An SD card is not pure memory. It is NAND-flash plus a complex controller. The controller can choose how the SD-card interface side interacts with the NAND flash, and will include ECC correction, wear-levelling etc.
From an electronic's perspective, you can never be 100% sure you are actually erasing everything, even with a "a mid-range dual core PC" taking "several minutes or more."
If you have (super) sensitive information, don't store on SD-cards, CF-cards, or USB sticks.
It is very rare to know 100% what the SD-card controller is doing. (Google for "bunnie studios SD card" for interesting background stuff)

(Disagree if you like, but I have worked with raw SLC & MLC NAND-flash chips, SD-card technology, and various embedded file systems for 10 years+ )


Formatting in-camera is usually advisable because it will create the required FAT-32 structure, rebuilding the boot sector+partition table, and the FAT table(s) required. (Point of fact, an SD-card can be specially formatted with multiple partitions on Linux/Mac, or with non-FAT file systems like jffs etc).

Back to the OP:
There's no reason you can't use a micro-SD card in your camera with a suitable micro-SD to SD card adapter. Do watch out for the class number of the card. Many micro-SD cards have a very low data rate (as they're designed primarily for phones that don't have a huge bandwidth anyway).

Personally, I have had good success with the Samsung Extreme SD cards. They're a good price, are water resistant, and crush resistant. They have lasted much, much longer than Sandisk professional grade cards for me

Matt

Nice set!

These also brought a smile

Just linking to the profile...

https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/mx-1-lens-profile-49883

Greetings!

Nice. I use NAND chips directly on our products (with ARM9 CPU).

Sounds like you need an MX-1

Matt

Just to explain further...

The "P" mode on the Pentax cameras will use the currently selected "Program Line" to decide how to balance the aperture and shutter speed for a given light level.

Out of the box, the "P" mode will use the "Normal" program line, which will be fine for everyday use.

However, the Record Mode settings in the camera allow you to choose between four different program lines, depending on your shooting style. For example, "Hi-speed Priority" will aim for a higher shutter speed, at the expense of shallower depth of field due to a wider aperture.
"DOF Priority (deep)" will aim for a smaller aperture (larger f-number) to get as much depth of field as possible. Obviously the shutter speed will be slower.
"DOF Priority (shallow)" will aim for a larger aperture (smaller f-number) to get as narrow a depth of field as possible. So, focus accuracy becomes more important.
and "MTF Priority" will aim for the aperture that gives the sharpest result on the attached lens (only if the lens actually reports that MTF aperture value of course).



However, when it comes to flash exposure, there are other factors at play. The flash menu has a choice of how you want to balance the ambient (non-flash) exposure with the flash exposure.

Setting the "Slow" or the trailing curtain flash sync modes will aim to set the exposure for the ambient light level and then fill in with flash. So, you'll have slower shutter speeds, but well lit subjects from the flash.

(Technical tip: if you set the overall exposure to -1Ev, and the flash exposure to +1Ev in the slow shutter sync flash mode then the camera will aim for perfect flash exposure, but with the ambient flash lighting one stop underexposed - giving a sense of the atmosphere, but nicely lit).


Unfortunately there is no "correct" flash exposure or magic bullet - you have to use your photographic imagination to work out what you want to achieve and then set the camera+flash up appropriately. It's not that hard, but better results can be obtained from helping the flash system know what you want

Matt

Probably they won't 100% (discussed on other threads).

BUT - good idea would be to link the AF calibration with the LiveView focus. i.e. to have the camera automatically compare the difference between the phase AF and the contrast AF and apply the setting for that lens.

MX-1
Similar to above comments... but I'd like to see a couple of minor firmware tweaks to bring it more in line with the dSLRs.
i.e. able to delete an image while the immediate preview is showing (rather than having to revert to play mode)
i.e. able to save the last buffer as RAW DNG - as the Pentax Q does

Thanks!
Matt

As promised, although I have submitted this to Adobe, here is a "version 1" Lens Profile for Adobe Camera Raw & Lightroom.

It's designed for the RAW files from the MX-1.
On the Mac, you shove the .lcp file in "~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/LensProfiles/1.0/" (best to copy this to the clipboard, then Cmd+Shift+G in Finder and paste in the location)

No idea where it goes on Windows

The profile could be a bit better I reckon. It is a real faff making it, but this has 3 zoom positions and two apertures and does a pretty decent job. Only thing is that it's oddly different in the distortion correction compared to the in-camera JPG correction. Can't see exactly why!

Let me know how it works! (And donations gratefully accepted :lol

http://www.photon.me.uk/pu/mx1/PENTAX-MX-1-lcp.zip

Eventually it should appear through Adobe's Lens Profile Downloader app...
Matt