Our Prime Minister fires the official starting gun for Brexit tomorrow. It's going to be interesting in two years when the actual exit happens to see how we will cope with setting the clocks back to 1972. I wonder if Little Jimmy Osmond will still be no. 1 in the pop charts.
> On 27 Mar 2017, at 19:15, Jos de Fotograaf <[email protected]> wrote: > > Stan, your explanation of GPS sounds logic, thks. > > The GPS is also used when shooting ASTRO, but I did not try that yet. > > I will check with Ricoh/Pentax why there would be no DST timetable for the > Netherlands. As they should know US could be first but Netherlands are second! > > Anyhow, I will not wait for the software update, but change the time manually. > > Greetz, Jos > > >> On 27-Mar-17 17:09, Stanley Halpin wrote: >> Jos, my understanding is that the K-1 GPS Logging has nothing to do with >> photography. It allows you to treat your camera as though it were a GPS >> handheld device, but it is not connected to your basic camera functions. >> >> With Logging, a subroutine in the firmware will periodically query the GPS >> chip, and will store the indicated location information in a file. If you >> are hiking through a forest, if you set the interval to 30 seconds or 1 >> minute you would be able to store a fairly continuous track of your path. It >> is a separate file on one of your cards, I believe it is not in your image >> folder. Later you can extract that Track and read it in various >> tracking/logging software. If you were driving you might want an interval of >> only 5 seconds. But of course the shorter the interval, the more processing >> you are asking for, and thus the more demands you are making on your battery. >> >> The photography (main) system in your camera does not need and does not use >> GPS Logging. It only reads and stores GPS data as needed. If you have GPS >> turned on, then when you take a picture the photography system will query >> the GPS chip and will record location, direction etc information within the >> EXiF for that captured image. >> >> Of course, I may be wrong, I was once wrong (maybe twice) and it might >> happen again at any time. But I believe the above is correct… >> >> Back on the question of DST, I agree with the others’ comments - I don’t >> think there is anything physically wrong with your camera, but rather the >> problem is with the camera firmware and its ability to maintain an internal >> database of the various time standards in various regions. One simple answer >> might be to verify that you have the latest firmware. But I know that I have >> been in many situations where the auto-set time on various GPS capable >> devices has simply been wrong. >> >> stan >> >>> On Mar 27, 2017, at 10:35 AM, Jos de Fotograaf <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Stanley, thks. So it should work. I will contact local Pentax for info. >>> >>> Maybe you can help in understanding the GPS. >>> >>> What does the camera do when GPS logging is on? >>> >>> Reasoning behind selecting a certain logging interval and duration? >>> >>> Greetz, Jos >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> On 27-Mar-17 15:16, Stanley Halpin wrote: >>>> I just checked mine. Both have GPS Time Sync turned on. On my primary K-1, >>>> I had DST checked. The indicated time was correct. On my backup, I had not >>>> checked DST in the Time submenu. The indicated time was off by one hour. I >>>> checked the DST Checkbox, the time immediately adjusted to the correct DST >>>> local time. >>>> >>>> So, not sure what the issue is with yours, but it does seem that it is >>>> working for me. >>>> >>>> stan >>>> >>>>> On Mar 27, 2017, at 8:46 AM, Jos de Fotograaf <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> This weekend my country (Netherlands) moved to summer time (DST) >>>>> >>>>> I could have changed the clock of my K1 the easy way by just set the >>>>> clock 1 hour later. >>>>> >>>>> I decided to let it happen automatically. >>>>> >>>>> In the menu I selected "GPS time sync" >>>>> >>>>> Then I switched on GPS logging and left it on for one hour. >>>>> >>>>> After that, the time was still not corrected. >>>>> >>>>> What did I do wrong? >>>>> >>>>> Greetz, Jos >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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. >> > > > -- > 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.
