On 06/10/2013 5:18 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Bill <[email protected]> wrote:
On 06/10/2013 9:05 AM, Darren Addy wrote:
The Flucard mention is interesting. (Aside: Whoever named that product
could not have been aware of what Flu means in English). It appears
that Pentax has made good on their desire to use a 3rd party to handle
tethering, etc. People for whom the features are important can buy the
related apps (geo-tagging photos also)
The tethering thing is something I don't get. The K5, and I am sure the
K5II, as well as the K7 and K20 before this were fully capable of tethering.
The camera supports it already. All Pentax needs to do is implement it with
some software.
Tethering to a smart phone would be cool though.
Tethering in the "studio" sense is missing: you cannot download images
to a previewing screen (eg Lightroom) like you can with all MF cameras
(Hassy, Phase One) and many FF's (Nikon, Canon).
Tethering in terms of remote control of shutter and other features, is
available, yes.
Fair enough. It isn't much more than a wired remote release the way it
is implemented by PkTether. I suspect Pentax hasn't bothered to rewrite
that part of the code since the *istD and that is all the camera is
capable of in this respect..
Image-download tethering is a highly desirable feature. I've tried to
do it with an Eye-Fi SD card but it's just too slow. I'd love to hear
that the Asian Flu card works.
For myself, studio tethering would be nice. I don't mind having to wait
until after the shoot to download the card, but if the being able to
fully tether to a smart phone is true, they've got me, no matter what
else the thing does.
bill
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