Re: Superman, the Pentax K20D, and 8 FPS?

2008-04-06 Thread Adam Maas
I'm pretty sure all pentax did was hook up the Live View feed to the JPEG engine for the 21fps mode. Thus they are constrained by what Live View can handle, which is rather low-res. -Adam On 4/5/08, Timber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: let's hope we will have a new firmware soon :D What I don't

Superman, the Pentax K20D, and 8 FPS?

2008-04-05 Thread Roman Melihhov
http://daviddoctorrose.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/superman-the-pentax-k20d-and-a-simple-idea/ Did I miss something? To my knowledge K20 does 3 FPS and low res 21FPS in burst mode. Where did this Pentax ad campaign message came from? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Superman, the Pentax K20D, and 8 FPS?

2008-04-05 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Roman Melihhov Subject: Superman, the Pentax K20D, and 8 FPS? http://daviddoctorrose.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/superman-the-pentax-k20d-and-a-simple-idea/ Did I miss something? To my knowledge K20 does 3 FPS and low res 21FPS in burst mode. Where did

Re: Superman, the Pentax K20D, and 8 FPS?

2008-04-05 Thread Paul Stenquist
The strange this is that any ad would have to be approved by Pentax' ad manager. He would think that he would have a clue. Bizarre. Paul On Apr 5, 2008, at 9:41 AM, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: Roman Melihhov Subject: Superman, the Pentax K20D, and 8 FPS? http

Re: Superman, the Pentax K20D, and 8 FPS?

2008-04-05 Thread Timber
let's hope we will have a new firmware soon :D What I don't understand: With K20D it became clear that DSLRs can make cont. shots without having to flip the mirror for every single shot. Why can't we have a continuous shooting mode like this but not with 1.2 Mpix? .t Roman Melihhov wrote:

Re: Superman, the Pentax K20D, and 8 FPS?

2008-04-05 Thread Bob Sullivan
I think it has something to do with bit transfer rates out of the imaging chip. The pipe is only so big to take it out to the Sd card. 21 small images or 3 big ones... Regards, Bob S. On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Timber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: let's hope we will have a new firmware soon :D