It took forever for my K-5 battery to charge last night, but as soon as that
light turned off I upgraded the firmware and started playing around with the
settings. The first photos (and video) I took were all of my cat, so I will
spare you from having to see that.
Holy crap, this thing is lightyears ahead of my K10D. I was thinking of
keeping the K10D as a backup, but I think it may just end up in permanent
storage (no one will want this lemon of a camera, so I'm not going to try to
sell it). The build and layout feels nothing like the Pentaxes I'm used to.
I was out of the loop for so long!
My only negative comment so far is that the focus-assist lamp is almost
useless when using a large lens like the DA* 16-50. You have to be back
pretty far for the light to illuminate near the center of the frame. I have
no idea where they could have put it that would have been better, however.
Anyway, I'm going to spend a good chunk of today looking for things to
photograph and playing with this amazing piece of technology. It feels great
to finally be excited about photography again!
John
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Celio
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 1:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Enablements
My K-5 is here! The UPS guy dropped it off this morning, but since I'm
at work I haven't had a chance to dive in yet. The box has been
whispering at me all day, begging me to open it up and retrieve my
prize, but I must resist its siren call and finish this damn project my
boss gave me this morning. Oh the torture! Quiet your song, digital
temptress!
Did I mention last month that I got a new laptop? Well, more of a
netbook. It was free from Google and came installed with Chrome OS
(beta, of course). I was picked to be part of the Chrome OS Pilot
Program, so I've been helping test the OS and the hardware, and so far I
think it's pretty great for a netbook. Still buggy and there are lots of
features that haven't been implemented yet (like a working file browser
and controls for the built-in webcam), but since it's pretty much the
Chrome browser running a laptop, it does what I expect and performs
pretty well. It should be pretty awesome when it's ready for general
consumption.
John
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