This is very good news in one way, I do hope that they also put .dng support directly in the camera as well ( damn .pef files are just to big! ). Pentax is known to have passed on the white papers on thier raw format to Adobe, one can hope! Either way with Pentax supporting the *istD still ( also I hope for some of the improvements the Ds got in it's firmware ).
--- R�diger Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Same Info came from also from Pentax Germany. At > that time the Pentax > Browser 2.0 and Lab 2.0 will be made available for > the *istD users. At that > time the update for the *istD will also be avaible. > I do not know if the update will make more than the > compability for the > *istD to the new Browser and Lab. > > Go to know that there is still support for the > *istD. > > regards > R�diger > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sam Jost" > > Hi folks, > > > > a representative of Pentax wrote me a mail saying > there will be a firmware > > update for the *istD sometime at the end of > january. It will be announced > in > > the news of Pentax homepage when in is available. > > > > I don't know what stuff they will adress in the > firmware other then the > > writing speed on CF cards (that went abysmally > down in the 1.10 update - > > yes, the 1.00 firmware did write way faster then > the new ones). > > > > And some general thing: a firmware update is never > 'a simple thing' - > > changing software embedded in hardware must be > made very careful and be > > tested a lot, you won't want a software update to > damage everybodys *istD > on > > some strange setting, do you? > > > > Happy Christmas! > > Sam > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
