raybrizzi

<p>One more nail in the coffin. It boggles my mind that a company that is putting so much effort into designing new cameras and branding does everything in their power to make sure NOBODY knows they even exist.<br> Tokina already makes no Pentax lenses, Tamron isn't listing it on any of their newer lenses according to their own brochures that I looked at yesterday. Sigma still has some faith it seems, but for how long.<br> I am still on the count of 7 for the number of other Pentax DSLRs I've seen on the street since 2008. <br> Would someone explain please? Anybody from Ricoh out there?</p>

<p>I did it right including using K5-BLACK, I had done this a number of times before on the k5 and k10d. Possibly they made some changes for HDXC that might have affected it. I did NOT use the card with the pictures for the upgrade, always format a new card in the camera first then copy in the .bin file so that's all there is on the card. Just a warning...</p>

<p>I had a K-10D for 3 years then upgraded to a K-5. Thought I would check on firmware updates last week and found that I was five updates behind.<br> Installed the new firmware and put in the SD card I had been using previously. The camera with the 1.16 firmware said there was no valid card. The files were still there if I read it on the computer, the camera didn't recognize the card an earlier firmware version had formatted..<br> <br />Just letting you know this could be a problem for you.</p>

<p>JDM... if it wasn't for wives and mothers throwing stuff out, nothing old would be worth anything.<br> And remember, Pentax SLRs were also one of the first waterproof cameras. Just watch Ringo in A Hard Day's Night accidentally drop his in the water and give it to the kids, and it still works.<br> I saw a storm trooper the other day from the side and thought I found number 8, but it turned out to be a Nikon. <br /><br /><br /></p>

<p>Checked the pictures this morning. Shot at ISO 100 in the 45 second range. Virtually no noise even in the darkest areas. Thanks again.</p>

<p>Thanks guys! Figured something like that was going on, just couldn't find anything in the manual. Will look for that long exposure setting. <br /><br />In this case, it wasn't a problem since the setup was complex and there was enough time, but it might be a problem in other situations, so good to know!<br> Didn't see it happening with the canikons next to me. Guess mine will have less noise :)</p> <p> </p>

<p>I've been using a K10D followed by a K5 since early 2008 and never had a reason to use the bulb setting till a few nights ago for a session where people were light painting trains at night.<br> <br />After I would take a shot, there would be a delay. It seemed to be related to how long the exposure was when I took the first few at five to ten seconds. I accidentally put my head down a while later when the exposures were much longer, and noticed there was a time counting down to zero, again seeming to be related to the time the shutter was open. <br /><br />Is there a setting I should set to prevent this? Or does the camera actually take movies and then combine the "frames" into one image? I didn't see anything about a delay in the manual.<br> <br />Thanks, Ray</p>

<p>Harry, not talking about individual rare models, just the whole brand. I see a lot of Leicas, this IS NYC with lots of foreigners with money. I'm talking about ANY Pentax DSLRs. Ditto with Olympuses, see many more of them.<br /><br />By the way, it was one of the Star Wars storm trooper ones, K50 I think.<br /><br />Maybe they advertise more overseas?</p>

<p>I bought my first Pentax K10D (after using k1000s many years earlier) in early 2008. I have been keeping a running count of all the other Pentax DSLRs I have seen in use since it's a low number.<br> Saw number 7 on a ferry ride yesterday, a guy with a light German accent. <br /><br />Even at events like the easter parade with thousands of people walking around with DSLRs, I never see any, and I told my girlfriend I'd give her five dollars if she found one. I still have the five dollars.</p>

<p>Even more has been resolved. I didn't mention that I thought my LCD screen was going bad because of how dull the colors looked when reviewing, like saturating down 50 percent and also darker. I had accidentally turned the processing mode to Bleach Bypass as I found out later. I checked because of all the comments here. But again, RAW was not affected. I almost sent it in to Pentax before my warranty ran out... Thanks for the input.<br> <br />Indeed, those settings would only affect the jpg and thimbnail and in camera viewing, not the RAW image. I feel much better (and dumber) now...</p>

<p>Just to make sure, I removed the preview folder so it would force new previews to be built. Just as Wouter said, after a minute or so, the thumbnail and the picture did pop up in color. It did say color in the develop module. Thanks again!</p>

<p>The black and white even happened when I did RAW only with monochrome selected, no jpeg. I didn't give it a long time to build new ones but will play with it a bit. I guess it's a misunderstanding since I thought the whole point of RAW was to get exactly what was there and pass it through untouched. Live and learn. I've only had the camera for 3 years :() Thanks all! Will be trying some more things today. At least I don't have to get the camera fixed as I thought.</p>

<p>I agree with you. And yet when I brought the pictures up in lightroom, both the raw and the jpeg were in monochrome. So something isn't right somewhere it seems.</p>

<p>I tried to post a question yesterday but I guess it didn't go through. However, it's just as well since i resolved it with a lot of testing. I had been having some problems with my K-5 over the last month or so. The LCD panel would be darker than it should, and colors were considerably unsaturated. I tried playing with the color wheel but it didn't do very much. Also set the LCD brightness to the max.<br> Since I shoot everything in RAW, I assumed it might be a failure of the display electronics, since it was both in preview and playback. I tried playing with the LCD color wheel but it didn't do very much. Then I pulled out the manual and started going through all the options.<br> Turns out that the problem was in the filter processing (right arrow during exposure mode.) I set the default BRIGHTNESS option to center settings and things got better. I always assumed that RAW was RAW and whatever you shot came through and those exposure options only applied to the jpg if you shot jpg or RAW+. But when i tried things like monochrome or reversal, it affected the RAW files as well. I thought that the whole purpose of RAW was to pass along everything just as it was received on the sensor with no processing, so i could get the monochrome on the jpg but as is on the RAW. Old shots on playback all look dull now although I brightened things up in Lightroom later.<br> Is there an option to let RAW come through as shot with no modifications and only modify the jpegs? I thought that was its purpose to begin with.<br> <br />Thanks, Ray</p> <p><br /><br /></p>