Re: Q 1.10 firmware

2012-10-28 Thread Jan van Wijk
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:17:29 -0400 Steven Desjardins wrote: The 15-45 2.8 for $300 is REALLY tempting. I'd like to read some reviews first, however. I will get that one for sure, I have the 01 standard (43mm eq) and the fisheye, so I am really lacking some longer autofocus lens.The specs look

Re: Q 1.10 firmware

2012-10-27 Thread Bob Sullivan
645D? And isn't in camera stabilization a Pentax patent? Bob S. On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: That post in steves-digicams.com that I linked to earlier noted that: SR with adapted lenses -- This now works like the DSLRs, but the setting of the FL

Re: Q 1.10 firmware

2012-10-27 Thread John Sessoms
From: Bob Sullivan 645D? And isn't in camera stabilization a Pentax patent? Bob S. I'm pretty sure it's licensed from Sony who acquired the patent when they bought Minolta. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from

Re: Q 1.10 firmware

2012-10-27 Thread P. J. Alling
On 10/27/2012 5:45 PM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Bob Sullivan 645D? And isn't in camera stabilization a Pentax patent? Bob S. I'm pretty sure it's licensed from Sony who acquired the patent when they bought Minolta. Pentax Sony and Olympus all use different enough implementations that

Re: Q 1.10 firmware

2012-10-27 Thread Steven Desjardins
The 15-45 2.8 for $300 is REALLY tempting. I'd like to read some reviews first, however. On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 8:35 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/27/2012 5:45 PM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Bob Sullivan 645D? And isn't in camera stabilization a Pentax patent?

Q 1.10 firmware

2012-10-26 Thread Toine
is out: http://www.pentaximaging.com/support/download-details/446 It includes focus peaking and SR with manual lenses. It works nicely. Toine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link

Re: Q 1.10 firmware

2012-10-26 Thread Darren Addy
Wow. I find this surprising, given that they could have made focus peaking only available on the new Q10. This gives me hope that focus peaking may be coming to a firmware upgrade for the K-5 also. Bravo Pentax! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Q 1.10 firmware

2012-10-26 Thread Steven Desjardins
Wow. That's a great feature. On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: Wow. I find this surprising, given that they could have made focus peaking only available on the new Q10. This gives me hope that focus peaking may be coming to a firmware upgrade for the K-5

Re: Q 1.10 firmware

2012-10-26 Thread Steven Desjardins
OK, I looked but can't see these features listed under 1.10. Where does it say this? On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote: Wow. That's a great feature. On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: Wow. I find this surprising,

Re: Q 1.10 firmware

2012-10-26 Thread Darren Addy
This guy reports it: http://www.flickr.com/groups/pentax-q/discuss/72157631850533682/ Also discussed here: http://forums.steves-digicams.com/pentax-samsung-dslr-k-mount-mirrorless/202509-q-firmware-update-adds-focus-peaking.html and here: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/post/50129501 -- PDML

Re: Q 1.10 firmware

2012-10-26 Thread Steven Desjardins
OK. I just could's see it on the official page listed in the first post and didn't want to go looking. So glad they decided not to just tick off the early adopters. Focus peaking could be a huge feature, especially for macro work. On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Darren Addy

Re: Q 1.10 firmware

2012-10-26 Thread Toine
Focus peaking makes life easy. It's to dark outside to try it out in full daylight. AF in low light is also improved. My M50 4.0 macro is now a 280mm macro and with focus peaking I can actually see if it's in focus without guessing, maybe SR has some effect in this setup. No flash above 1/13s

Re: Q 1.10 firmware

2012-10-26 Thread Darren Addy
A commenter in a thread on dpreview noted that the focus peaking makes the Toy lenses (manual focus) so much easier to use now. So adding this to the firmware update for the original Q may help Pentax boost sales of those a bit (also the Fisheye). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Q 1.10 firmware

2012-10-26 Thread Jan van Wijk
On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:45:50 -0400 Steven Desjardins wrote: OK, I looked but can't see these features listed under 1.10. Where does it say this? It doesn't say that AFAICT, but it IS there! I just updated to 1.10, and while all settings were back to default (including last image number!) the