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Comment by MattMatic posted on New higher end model planned for 2009 at 07/02/2008 - 08:50
It sort of defeats the purpose of weather shielding if you have to leave the door open
You'd probably need one grip for outdoors and the WiFi for the studio
Matt
Comment by MattMatic posted on GX20 Grip with WiFi? at 01/02/2008 - 14:20
http://www.engadget.com/photos/hands-on-with-samsungs-gx-20-dslr/616841/
I would suspect the grip connection has no access to the USB, and they need that for the WiFi access to the data.
Interesting idea though...
Matt
Comment by MattMatic posted on GX20 Grip with WiFi? at 01/02/2008 - 11:06
... but without SDM
Matt
Comment by MattMatic posted on New Sigma Lenses for Pentax with HSM at 06/02/2008 - 15:03
(The 8Gb one is £49.90).
Highly recommend Picstop too
Matt
Comment by MattMatic posted on Pentax K20D/K200D Launch Party 29th March 2008 at 04/02/2008 - 09:50
That'll do nicely for my K20D fund
Matt
Comment by MattMatic posted on For Sale K10D + many extras at 18/02/2008 - 10:40
How about a 1.7x AF converter? The way they've been selling lately, I reckon that should about cover it. Offers anybody?
And I agree, Daniel - the way they've been selling gives me high hopes
Also have a Metz 50MZ5 kit (well used, but with two NiMH batteries, Lumiquest hood and latest Pentax adapter).
...Just been far too busy to get it sorted out in the classified properly
Matt
Comment by MattMatic posted on For Sale K10D + many extras at 04/02/2008 - 09:39
However, Benjikan never elaborated on his statement "This is a camera that is almost too quiet, if there is such a thing"
Looks I'll be offloading some Pentax gear to pay for the K20D...
Matt
Comment by MattMatic posted on For Sale K10D + many extras at 01/02/2008 - 14:19
So, you're limited to 32Gb with the K10D at least (because it's extremely unlikely - read impossible - that Pentax will do a firmware update for the K10D when that happens. In fact, I strongly suspect that the K10D firmware updates are complete and 1.3 is where it will stay... they'll be funnelling their programming, development, and testing skills into the new range of DSLRs).
I said this over a month ago.
Writing firmware for a living myself, I know how burdensome the development/bugfix/test/release cycle is
You might think it's just a small change... but any change, however small, should require full validation to ensure nothing odd crept into the build.
It may even surprise you to know that several operating system vendors (read: embedded O/S) will license you on a per-product basis, allowing only a certain percentage of code changes within that license agreement.
Even if the O/S and development system were royalty-free and allowed free reign, I doubt that Pentax (or any other camera companies for that matter), have the resources available to concurrently work on new products and add features to old... unless there's a real "show-stopper" on the old firmware.
Just my (in-the-business) thoughts
Matt
Comment by MattMatic posted on No new K10D Firmware yet. at 30/01/2008 - 17:20
My collegue has just come back from PMA with some good news, there is a price repostion, bad news is we don't know what price yet Laughing
Matt
Comment by MattMatic posted on Digitalrev from e-bay taking orders for K200 at 04/02/2008 - 15:56
If the time comes when PEFs seem doomed to extinction, there will no doubt be software to convert, plus massive hard drives and more powerful computers.
Adobe DNG converter (the standalone app) will convert from PEF to DNG. It's worth noting that DNG can be either uncompressed, or compressed. The K10D produces uncompressed DNG files, but the ADNGC can produce both (It can also embed the original PEF file in the DNG file for archiving purposes!)
Matt