As far as I know, my Macintosh will not run .exe files without Windows
and virtual OS space installed.
Apple called me a day or so after I sent you my original message and
reported that it was not a problem with Aperture, as all other camera
makers have the lens model in the "Lens Model" field of the EXIF.
Pentax changed that in their camera's firmware for some reason, and of
course provide users with software that takes that into account (I
presume, as I cannot install it).
My take on this is - If standard EXIF format has a field for "Lens
Model" as well as other lens information, and it was able to be read
and viewed in most if not all of the image processing software
available until a combination of new Pentax cameras (K20D) and
firmware updates (K100D and K10D), then Pentax firmware engineers made
an error. Time for them to get back to their terminals and rewrite the
code!
As much as it would be of interest to me and the other Pentaxians with
whom I communicate regularly (PDML List) as to why Pentax changed this
formatting, I will accept just a notification that the problem has
been fixed, and the firmware upgrades are available.
I know the data is complicated across camera and lens models, as
attested by the incomplete attempt at translation by the folks at
Queens College and their EXIFTool. If I had the time, and it was my
job, I'd figure this out myself and write a tool to do the
interpretation and relocation of Pentax EXIF Tags to other software
programs.
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/index.html
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/index.html
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/Pentax.html
Thank you for your reply.
Joseph McAllister
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Oct 28, 2008, at 09:10 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Mr McAllister,
Thank you for contacting Pentax.
Have you tried to go into the disk and run the .exe file? Normally
this will cure this issue.
If you are in need of further assistance, please respond to this
email or call our technical support center at 800-877-0155.
I have spoken on two occasions with your tech support center about
this problem, with a promise that they would get back to me when they
got some answers from Pentax Japan. No one has called or written,
yet. :-)
If you would like to participate in our new Pentax Survey, please
call 1-800-350-3891.
I will participate when I have something to report in the way of
progress.
Sincerely,
Jason Sundin
Pentax Imaging Technical Support
Your Email:
1. In late July and early August, my K100, K10 stopped
matching EXIF data fields with Apple Aperture, and apparently
Lightroom as well. It has been impossible for me to find out
whether Pentax firmware changes are causing this, or Aperture`s
update to 2.x. Bottom line is, someone has to get together with
someone and work this out.
2. Since upgrading to Mac OS 10.5.5, and trying to attack this EXIF
problem, I am unable to install ANY Pentax software that came with
any of my digital cameras. The Installer gets to the blank window
where data
should show up allowing me to click the installation to begin. I`ve
tried ACDSEE, Browser 3.5, to no avail. Any suggestions?
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