Re: Question or better yet, idea

2004-01-10 Thread Boris Liberman
Hi! HC> you would have to send the camera in, at least. it doesn't like there is an HC> interface to connect to, so the camera needs to be partly disassembled. i HC> would not be surprised to see a $100 charge for such an operation. for a HC> camera that costs $300 and under, i don't see that anyo

Re: Question or better yet, idea

2004-01-09 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Bob W" Subject: Re: Question or better yet, idea > Hi, > > > The new firmware fix gives you better than stop down metering. It > > is a nice solution. > > I don't generally follow ist-d threads, so forgive me i

Re: Question or better yet, idea

2004-01-09 Thread Keith Whaley
I think someone ought to hold their feet to the fire, so they come up with a compatibility scheme to hook all my SMC K-mount lenses to my Optio-S4! Now, there's an idea whose time has come! Not that there's anything wrong with YOUR idea, Boris, but this one came immediately to mind, so I had to br

Re: Question or better yet, idea

2004-01-09 Thread Leonard Paris
And hacks are fine. Kludges are usually a mess. Len --- * There's no place like 127.0.0.1 From: "Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Question or better yet, idea Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:43:57 -0500 I'd

RE: Question or better yet, idea

2004-01-09 Thread Leonard Paris
* There's no place like 127.0.0.1 From: alex wetmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Question or better yet, idea Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 10:04:29 -0800 (PST) On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Leonard Paris wrote: > That's really strange, the

Re: Question or better yet, idea

2004-01-09 Thread Christian
ry 09, 2004 1:36 PM Subject: Re: Question or better yet, idea > Hi, > > > The new firmware fix gives you better than stop down metering. It > > is a nice solution. > > I don't generally follow ist-d threads, so forgive me if I'm repeating > something, or if I&

Re: Question or better yet, idea

2004-01-09 Thread Bob W
Hi, > The new firmware fix gives you better than stop down metering. It > is a nice solution. I don't generally follow ist-d threads, so forgive me if I'm repeating something, or if I've missed something about the ist-d. It sounds to me like a solution to a problem that shouldn't exist anyway.

Re: Question or better yet, idea

2004-01-09 Thread arnie
Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: > Do these have electronic DOF preview? Do they have a way to upgrade > the firmware? how about by exposing a roll of film to the binary code of the upgrade, then loading that film into the camera? arnie

RE: Question or better yet, idea

2004-01-09 Thread alex wetmore
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Leonard Paris wrote: > That's really strange, the "crippled mount" idea. I was using my Zenitar > fisheye in aperture priority with version 1.0 of the firmware and had no > problems. Probably in stop down metering? That works great with screwmount lenses on a screwmount adapt

Re: Question or better yet, idea

2004-01-09 Thread Mark Roberts
Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pentax has proved by giving an example that a camera with crippled >mount is not really so crippled. I wonder, whether they can produce an >firmware upgrade for *ist, MZ-30 and similar cameras... As long as you don't mind soldering a new surface-mount RO

RE: Question or better yet, idea

2004-01-09 Thread Leonard Paris
That's really strange, the "crippled mount" idea. I was using my Zenitar fisheye in aperture priority with version 1.0 of the firmware and had no problems. Len --- * There's no place like 127.0.0.1 From: Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PDML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question or better yet, idea

2004-01-09 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Boris Liberman wrote: > mount is not really so crippled. I wonder, whether they can produce an > firmware upgrade for *ist, MZ-30 and similar cameras... Do these have electronic DOF preview? Do they have a way to upgrade the firmware? I was talking to a friend about the chanc

RE: Question or better yet, idea

2004-01-09 Thread Jeff Jonsson
I say that since the *ist is not a digital camera per se, there would be no way to "upgrade" the firmware, without sending it back to Pentax to have whatever ROM chip that holds the operating information, upgraded or replaced. Jeff. -Original Message- From: Boris Liberman [mailto:[EMAIL P