On Sep 20, 2013, at 2:38 PM, steve harley wrote: > on 2013-09-20 12:18 Larry Colen wrote >> 5) Meanwhile, several people on the list will buy it, and while it >> won't be perfect, they will decide that it is a significant improvement >> in usability over the K-5. > > it would have to be a major improvement in usability (or maybe dynamic > range/high iso) to perk my interest; more pixels i don't need; for my limited > use of AF, K-5 is good enough for me;
> dual card slots aren't a big deal for me I have been thinking through "issues" with my workflow when I travel. Considering how to leave behind my laptop and travel just with iPad. One quite appealing approach is to shoot jpeg+RAW, download the jpeg's to the iPad, tag and sort on the iPad (Photosmith app), then download the RAW files to main computer back home and synch the metadata. All this is pretty straightforward if there are two cards: RAW's go to one card, jpeg's to the other. > > but Pentax doesn't really need me, they need new customers, so it's probably > most important how it will appeal to people who haven't already got a > K-5-level camera > > Something else that would interest me: remember tethering? Pentax used to have tethering capability on early DSLR's. Top-end modern cameras have wireless tethering to iPads or smartphones. It would be nice if Pentax were to rediscover tethering and join that group . . . stan -- 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.
