I run a MDG windblows computer, with usb 1.1. It takes just under an hour to down load a 2 gig card.
Just thought i'd share:-) Dave On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Bob Sullivan<[email protected]> wrote: > I ran PS Elements 5.0 on all the K20D stuff, shooting DNG's. > (Shot PEF's for a while on the K10D) > Regards, Bob S. > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Doug Brewer<[email protected]> wrote: >> I ran PS 7.0 on my work box and had no trouble with K20 files that I recall. >> Generally, I converted using Irfanview; you might want to give it a try. >> >> P. J. Alling wrote: >>> >>> Well not really blues, exactly. The K20 is, relatively, big, and heavy, >>> and takes very nice photos; very, very, nice photos. However it's just >>> sinking in how much I'm going to have to upgrade. >>> >>> Pentax Photo Lab does a reasonably good job of converting the raw output, >>> but it's really clunky to use. RSE which is what I have been using is, of >>> course, a dead product, since Adobe bought it, (just as I had decided to buy >>> RSP, also a dead product), but it did everything I needed and it's work flow >>> was actually good enough for me to use when shooting a wedding or other >>> event. Well that's gone and now I need to look at different raw converters. >>> Some of the photoshop plugins I've been using simply refuse to work with >>> files produced by the K20D, I'll have to find replacements, even if I didn't >>> have to update to a newer picture editing program, (I'm using Photoshop >>> 7.0). That too produced very nice output with the *ist-D and Ds). >>> The built in card reader in my Win2K box chokes on SDHC cards, not >>> surprising really, but I keep forgetting, annoying, so I need a new one of >>> those. I was already running out of Hard drive space, looks like another >>> Terabyte is in order, probably two, (damn I remember when a Terabyte was *a* >>> *boatload* of storage). >>> >>> Then there's my flash units, I've been using a pair of AF280Ts as my >>> primary on camera lighting, and an AF200T as a just in case unit, since my >>> primary cameras were a pair of LXen. Well of course TTL is dead, so I need >>> to upgrade those. Yes I know, they still work as dumb flash units, (and as >>> long as I have an LX or a *ist camera in my inventory I will probably keep >>> them, after all what are they worth used), but the 280s have always been a >>> little under powered, and what made them reasonably viable was the their TTL >>> capability. <Rhetorical>The question about the flash is do I go with >>> something simple but powerful and robust such as Vivitar 285HV or a >>> sophisticated unit like the Pentax AF-540.</rhetorical> Oh well, I don't >>> /need/ to make that decision today. >>> Thank Gaud that at least the lenses don't have to be changed, though I've >>> been lusting over a 77 limited for some time now, and the 17-70 would be >>> very convenient, and then there's that 15mm limited that everyone hates and >>> either an A 20mm or Da 21mm, (AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGG). >> >> >> -- >> 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. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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.
