Again... List of capabilities I want in my current K10D or next hand held image computer, all of which could be made available from camera firmware and/or Remote Assistant software:
1. Ability to turn off the viewfinder display. It's not only useless for astrophotography, it greatly interferes with night vision and focusing on stars, or even dark street scenes. 2. Ability to adjust focus manually from the remote assistant, i.e. adjust the little screw drive as desired in manual mode from the remote assistant. 3. Continuous digital preview selection (mirror locked up, screen video) from the remote assistant (for remote focus). 4. Zoom of the digital preview selection from the remote assistant (for remote focus). 5. Continuous (one frame per half second) transfer to to the remote assistant of the zoomed of the digital preview (for remote focus and for monitoring - great for elusive wildlife). 7. Actual mirror lock (with AC adaptor for selenoid power if it's necessary) to support the above and to allow capture at the desired instant as it is seen. and via additional device: 8. Wireless (peferably via ad hoc 802.11n) transfer of all data and protocalls available from the camera's USB port. Gawd! The things I could do with these capabilities! Regards, Bob... ----------------------------------------------------------------- "I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them long winter evenings." -- Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 8:56 AM Subject: K10D Custom Function Suggestions for Pentax > I'm pretty happy with the configurability of the K10D via Custom > Function, especially in the AE modes. But I do have a few suggestions > for Pentax which would improve this even more. > > Here they are: > > Add custom functions to allow assignment of control dials in M, B(ulb) > and X-Sync modes. > > For M(anual) mode, this needs two options, standard and reversed controls. > > For B mode, it needs standard and reversed controls, and standard and > reversed controls with ISO on the second dial (Currently all you have > is Aperture on the rear dial in Bulb mode). > > X(-sync) mode should be the same as Bulb. Reverseable dials and the > option of having ISO on the second dial. > > The Custom Function 'Green Button in TAv and M' should be split into > two functions. One for TAv with the current options, another for M > with the current options and a Sv Line as well (set ISO). Currently > you can choose Program Line(Green Button sets Aperture and Shutter > based on the program line), Tv Line (Green button sets Shutter based > on selected Aperture) and Av Line (Green Button sets aperture based on > shutter). > > The Custom Function 'AF Button Function' needs some more options. What > it needs are: > > Disengage/Engage AF when held - AF button disengages the AF drive when > held while the camera's AF mode selector is in an AF selection, when > the AF Mode Selector is in MF holding the AF button engages the AF > system in AF-S mode and activates it. > > Disengage/Engage AF When Pressed - AF Button overrides the AF Mode > selector position, toggling the AF system's engagement when pressed. > As the K10D indicates MF in the viewfinder, this would allow quick > switching between AF and MF with all AF lenses, even the older FA > lenses without Quick-Shift Focus. It would engage AF-S mode if the AF > Mode Selector is set to MF or AF-S, and AF-C if the AF Mode Selector > is set to AF-C. > > Two more AF custom functions are also needed. > > The first is 'AF-C Priority', with two options: "Release Priority' > (Default) and 'Focus Priority' > The second is 'AF-S Priority', with the same two options, but 'Focus > Priority' as the default. > > Also there needs to be a Custom Function 'Display ISO in Viewfinder' > which would have 'Disable' as default (showing Frames Remaining) and > 'Enable' as an option, displaying ISO instead of frames remaining in > the viewfinder. > > As to the in-camera post-processing, it needs a little tweaking. First > of all, the RAW Development needs a second save option. The current > one needs to become 'Save as JPEG', and a 'Apply to RAW' options is > also needed, that applies the selected settings to the RAW metadata > and regenerates the embedded preview (I want this so I can fix WB > after the fact in-camera). Also it would be nice if I could select one > of the digital filters as a default for JPEGs (IE, I want to be able > to select the B&W options so I can shoot in B&W mode rather than > having to do conversions afterwards). > > -- > > So I'm going to send this to Pentax as a suggestion, anyone have any > comments first? > > -- > M. Adam Maas > http://www.mawz.ca > Explorations of the City Around Us. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
