Stan, your explanation of GPS sounds logic, thks.
The GPS is also used when shooting ASTRO, but I did not try that yet.
I will check with Ricoh/Pentax why there would be no DST timetable for
the Netherlands. As they should know US could be first but Netherlands
are second!
Anyhow, I will not wait for the software update, but change the time
manually.
Greetz, Jos
On 27-Mar-17 17:09, Stanley Halpin wrote:
Jos, my understanding is that the K-1 GPS Logging has nothing to do with
photography. It allows you to treat your camera as though it were a GPS
handheld device, but it is not connected to your basic camera functions.
With Logging, a subroutine in the firmware will periodically query the GPS
chip, and will store the indicated location information in a file. If you are
hiking through a forest, if you set the interval to 30 seconds or 1 minute you
would be able to store a fairly continuous track of your path. It is a separate
file on one of your cards, I believe it is not in your image folder. Later you
can extract that Track and read it in various tracking/logging software. If you
were driving you might want an interval of only 5 seconds. But of course the
shorter the interval, the more processing you are asking for, and thus the more
demands you are making on your battery.
The photography (main) system in your camera does not need and does not use GPS
Logging. It only reads and stores GPS data as needed. If you have GPS turned
on, then when you take a picture the photography system will query the GPS chip
and will record location, direction etc information within the EXiF for that
captured image.
Of course, I may be wrong, I was once wrong (maybe twice) and it might happen
again at any time. But I believe the above is correct…
Back on the question of DST, I agree with the others’ comments - I don’t think
there is anything physically wrong with your camera, but rather the problem is
with the camera firmware and its ability to maintain an internal database of
the various time standards in various regions. One simple answer might be to
verify that you have the latest firmware. But I know that I have been in many
situations where the auto-set time on various GPS capable devices has simply
been wrong.
stan
On Mar 27, 2017, at 10:35 AM, Jos de Fotograaf <josdefotogr...@4prof.nl> wrote:
Hi Stanley, thks. So it should work. I will contact local Pentax for info.
Maybe you can help in understanding the GPS.
What does the camera do when GPS logging is on?
Reasoning behind selecting a certain logging interval and duration?
Greetz, Jos
On 27-Mar-17 15:16, Stanley Halpin wrote:
I just checked mine. Both have GPS Time Sync turned on. On my primary K-1, I
had DST checked. The indicated time was correct. On my backup, I had not
checked DST in the Time submenu. The indicated time was off by one hour. I
checked the DST Checkbox, the time immediately adjusted to the correct DST
local time.
So, not sure what the issue is with yours, but it does seem that it is working
for me.
stan
On Mar 27, 2017, at 8:46 AM, Jos de Fotograaf <josdefotogr...@4prof.nl> wrote:
This weekend my country (Netherlands) moved to summer time (DST)
I could have changed the clock of my K1 the easy way by just set the clock 1
hour later.
I decided to let it happen automatically.
In the menu I selected "GPS time sync"
Then I switched on GPS logging and left it on for one hour.
After that, the time was still not corrected.
What did I do wrong?
Greetz, Jos
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