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>

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<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>

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<p>I haven't been on awhile, I'll admit. But PN seems to be a very difficult site to use. Clicking on links gives me things like no picture appearing, unsupported compression, wanting to save a nonexistent file, and other strange messages. This is the browser I use to avoid IE's draggy response and Google's spying. It is not obscure and should be supported. i don't see this kind of thing happening with any other sites I use. <br /><br />Paying for a site should mean that it's properly supported.</p>

<p>So basically it's just the size of the viewfinder that makes the difference. I'll have to dig out the old EXA and compare. Thanks!</p>

<p>Back in the old days, I had a 50mm lens on my EXA IIA and Canons. If I looked through the viewfinder with both eyes open, the view was the same size in both eyes. If I put the 2x converter on it, the viewfinder view was twice as big.<br>

Now I have a k-5 with a lens at 70mm, which with the 1.5 factor should be about the same as the old camera, 105mm or so. But the view is the same from both eyes again. <br>

Just trying to understand why. I'm obviously missing something. Or is it just that the viewfinder is larger or smaller?</p>

<p>Ricoh put a lot into the Pentax exhibit this year. Very impressive, major corporation level. Lots of lights, lots of equipment in glass circles locked in the wall, lots of knowledgeable people, and some really cool stuff.A couple of walls of photos. Love the underwater camera with the panoramic aspect as the default with a ring of LED's around the lens for macro work.<br>

As opposed to last year where there was a big white table with a K5, the full format one, and one point and shoot, 2 people, and a pentax sign on the table. GFY, Hoya!</p>

<p>No, it was using 1/125 another time. So apparently it's the camera, not the flash. I personally don't see why it just doesn't use 1/180 all the time for flash if it can so you can use it for fill without having to have blurry pictures on an arbitrary design whim.</p>

 

<p>Like Randy Newman sang, "It's a jungle out there. Disorder and confusion everywhere. No one seems to care. Well I do. Hey, who's in charge here?"<br>

Either that, or they're trying the "1984" tactic of cutting the chocolate ration, but then saying they're raising it to the new level.<br>

Posted Friday...<br>

http://www.pentaxforums.com/news/pentax-lens-prices-back-down.html</p>

<p>The other day, I was shooting outside trying to use the flash just for fill, and it was locked at 1/90. Now that I'm trying it at home, it went to 1/125. Wish I understood the logic... this is AV mode set to f8. Will try some other testing.</p>

<p>I know very few people will have this model flash, but it may affect other flashes as well. When I use the flash on my K-5 with P-TTL, it picks up the ISO, focal length and f/stop fine and shows it on the flash. But the shutter speed is set to a firm 1/90. Why not 1/180? Is it the flash or the camera that sets that speed? Is there an option I'm missing somewhere?<br>

If I use x-sync, it goes to 1/180. </p>

<p>I'm at a loss since the K-5 had already put 100+ pictures on the K-10d-formatted card earlier this month with no problem. I definitely learned my lesson about formatting in the k5 tho!.</p>

<p>Are other people seeing the same thing? It's not just at 51,200. It starts at around 8000 which is a lot of stops to get noise on.<br>

<br />No idea how I would get rid of a repeating pattern like that except ridiculous amounts of noise reduction.</p>

<p>I tried two of the programs but they were coming up with file sizes that were 131k in size and big ones with no file information. It was only about 40 pictures at the end of the shoot. The first 350 were on a newly formatted card and no trouble there. I'll take this as a lesson learned and save the program names for the future. What's weird is that I had already taken about 75 pictures with the K5 on the car already and they are fine.<br>

Thanks!</p>