I, too, would prefer hard copy, I can browse at leisure and I then put it in my waiting room .

This may sound very snobby and it certainly isn't meant to be but if you can afford a Pentax and you can afford to print out your work, you can certainly afford a hardcopy magazine so cost to the reader doesn't come into it.

Now the environmental issue is another thing. All I can say is that the effect that the production of Pentax User could have upon the planet's resources must be very small indeed in global terms although, in a sense, every bit counts.

I'd still prefer hard copy.


Richard

Hi,

Can I regfer you to a similar thread I started a few weeks back;
https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/techy-question--usb-cable-16311/p-0#comm_167682

I got a cable from a Hong Kong company, the source for which which I'd learned from a helpful Forum member, for the magnificent sum of £1.79. I suggest you read my thread and go to the same source.


Richard

Card reader??? All the card readers I have use the "standard-issue" USB plug with equi-spaced pins.

Which is back where I started...


Richard

Well spotted

I did do some searching but in the time available didn't see that URL.


Richard

Hi to Anvh and to DoctorJeff,

Yes, to some extent I have answered my own question but this public discussion has revealed the fact that the makeup of the Pentax plug is clearly proprietary and is very much non-standard and has placed that information in the public domain. It's also revealed that nobody knew anything about it - something I would never have known had I not enquired

Your comment, DoctorJeff, is an intriguing one, it's probably something we will never know but I guess it may have something to do with Pentax's forward planning, something which we know is central to their product development, the wide lens mount and the lens mount contacts being two such examples.

So, alltold, I think a positive outcome for all.


Richard

Hi All,

I'm very grateful to all those who've responded but regrettably, many of you, whilst being extremely well-intentioned are completely wide of the mark. Those of you who have pointed me to the various USB documentations on the net describing the international standards for USB sockets have clearly never looked closely at your own Pentax USB plug which I did mention initially is probably proprietary in design and varies from the international standard although the overall shape and dimensions are likely the same.

To put this one to bed for once and all, I've taken a close-up picture of my own Pentax lead (which incidentally fits both my K20D and my *istDS) and which shows clearly the non-equally-spaced nature of the Pentax plug contacts.




I hope this helps.


Richard

That's my boy!

I knew someone would be able to point me in the right direction, my thanks go to Hardgravity and also to the others who chipped in with helpful comments.


Richard

Hi,

Advice would be appreciated.

What is the type of plug on the camera end of the USB cable that comes with my K20D (and most other Pentax cameras, I believe). I think it's a USB Micro "B" but looking carefully at it its seems that there are four offset pins (and an earth, I guess) rather than the four equally spaced pins of the "standard" USB Micro cable as displayed on Wikipedia;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_connector#Types_of_USB_connector
This does rather suggest a proprietary cable. Is it proprietary (and thus blocking us out from buying A.N. Other's brand)?

Cheers,


Richard

Thanks to everybody who's responded. I guess they work


Richard

Hi,

Can anyone confirm that a Micro SD card with adaptor will work in a K20D? They're supposed to be broadly electrically compatible with "standard" SD cards.

Richard