Re: Re: Pentax GPS Unit - Pentax O-GPS1

2011-07-04 Thread Jens
Thanks Jan van Wijk This is really great news. Hopefully I´ll get mine before my summer holliday starts July 18th. :-) Yes, the K-5 is superior to the K-7 in many ways. I can shoot at kids birthday parties without having to use a flash. Often a flash is very annoying for guests at a party or

Re: Re: Pentax GPS Unit - Pentax O-GPS1

2011-07-04 Thread Jens
Thanks Rob. I can harldy wait for it to get to my home mailbox :-) Jens -- Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. On Jul 3, 2011 12:25 Rob Studdert distudio.p...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 July 2011 19:56, Jens p...@planfoto.dk wrote: Well - I just ordered (an payed for) one

Pentax GPS Unit - Pentax O-GPS1

2011-07-03 Thread Jens
Finally Pentax is offering a GPS Unit for the Flash Hot shoe. The Pentax O-GPS1. It should be available this month. According to reiews it's quite advanced - with a compas (records the shooting direction) and more. As a matter of fact I allready own three third party units, among which is a

Re: Pentax GPS Unit - Pentax O-GPS1

2011-07-03 Thread Jens
Well - I just ordered (an payed for) one anyway. The dpreview review said that it will write data directly into the images (meta data). This is GREAT NEWS. Bravo Pentax! I wanted such a device for YEARS. At 219 Euros (in Gernany) it will save me a lot of time, provided there's no need for

Re: Pentax GPS Unit - Pentax O-GPS1

2011-07-03 Thread Rob Studdert
On 3 July 2011 19:56, Jens p...@planfoto.dk wrote: Well - I just ordered (an payed for) one anyway. The dpreview review said that it will write data directly into the images (meta data). This is GREAT NEWS. Bravo Pentax! I wanted such a device for YEARS. At 219 Euros (in Gernany) it will

Re: Pentax GPS Unit - Pentax O-GPS1

2011-07-03 Thread Jan van Wijk
Hi Jens, On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:34:27 +0200 Jens wrote: Finally Pentax is offering a GPS Unit for the Flash Hot shoe. The Pentax O-GPS1. Yes, I have one on order ... (even if price/availability is unknown here in the Netherlands :-) It should be available this month. According to reiews

RE: Pentax GPS Unit - Pentax O-GPS1

2011-07-03 Thread Bob W
This GPS anouncement actually was the final push to make me get a K5 (had a K10D and K7). I'm hoping Leica will bring out a nice brass astrolabe for the M8, and an amanuensis to record its findings. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Pentax GPS Unit - Pentax O-GPS1

2011-07-03 Thread Larry Colen
On Jul 3, 2011, at 6:55 AM, Bob W wrote: This GPS anouncement actually was the final push to make me get a K5 (had a K10D and K7). I'm hoping Leica will bring out a nice brass astrolabe for the M8, and an amanuensis to record its findings. Mark, when you're back from Ireland B