On Mar 19, 2011, at 11:34 AM, John Celio wrote: > It took forever for my K-5 battery to charge
You didn't pull the battery and charger out at work and charge it during the afternoon? I'm impressed, you have a lot more self restraint than I do. > 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. At least I have a pretty redhead staying at the house who came in handy for the first shot. > > 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! When I upgraded to the K20 from my K100 I was blown away by the improvement in ergonomics. The K20 also had a significant boost in performance over the K100. > > 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. Aha! That explains something I hadn't really thought through. Though if it's dark enough to need focus assist, there's a good chance I'm not using slow glass like the 16-50. > > > 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. Where do I sign up? I can write kick-ass bug reports. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
