Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-04-04 Thread Joseph McAllister
You are most likely correct. I forgot about that. Was that part of the OpenStep/NextStep development? (I'm watching the F1 race, and do not wish to do the research at this time) :- On Apr 3, 2010, at 18:31 , Adam Maas wrote: On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Joseph McAllister

RE: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-04-03 Thread Bob W
It does. In fact, that's how I work. Pity the photographer who doesn't work that way: Adobe gets to choose his workflow, not him. But that's Adobe's mindset. What they want is more important than what the customer wants. Think of them as a chef cooking your steak... -- PDML

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-04-03 Thread Adam Maas
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com wrote: They do Robby. But they do not have the backward compatibility that Pentax does. Ever since they decided to use the damn chip that the PCs did, and rewrote the OS to work with it. Actually it's the other 'way

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-04-02 Thread Joseph McAllister
Thanks Stan. All of my printers are Epson. They are usually a few months late in getting their drivers to Apple to be included in the release. I assume they may be included in the newest update, 10.6.2 isn't it? See my next post though. I've decided to stick with 10.5.8 for a while longer,

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-04-02 Thread Joseph McAllister
On Apr 1, 2010, at 05:34 , Doug Franklin wrote: On 2010-04-01 3:31, mike wilson wrote: Yes but Adobe just doesn't. That's why, Content Aware Fill or not, I'll think long and hard before dropping the money for the updated Photoshop. Adobe has a particularly nasty belief that they own my

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-04-02 Thread Joseph McAllister
On Apr 1, 2010, at 07:51 , P. J. Alling wrote: On 4/1/2010 7:34 AM, Doug Franklin wrote: On 2010-04-01 3:31, mike wilson wrote: Yes but Adobe just doesn't. That's why, Content Aware Fill or not, I'll think long and hard before dropping the money for the updated Photoshop. Adobe has a

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-04-02 Thread Joseph McAllister
On Mar 31, 2010, at 16:50 , William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: Joseph McAllister Subject: Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and I'm sitting here now trying to get the courage up to install my 6 mo. old new copy of OS 10.6 and Aperture 3.0 (and then doing

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-04-02 Thread Mark Roberts
Joseph McAllister wrote: On Apr 1, 2010, at 07:51 , P. J. Alling wrote: On 4/1/2010 7:34 AM, Doug Franklin wrote: On 2010-04-01 3:31, mike wilson wrote: Yes but Adobe just doesn't. That's why, Content Aware Fill or not, I'll think long and hard before dropping the money for the updated

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-04-02 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Joseph McAllister Subject: Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and Wow, and I thought Macs just worked. They do Robby. But they do not have the backward compatibility that Pentax does. It doesn't sound like they have the backwards

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-04-02 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Joseph McAllister Subject: Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and Agree. And they still try every time I launch any of their products, especially the oft used Acrobat Reader. New updates for Reader are available is Adobe code for can we check all

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-04-02 Thread Miserere
Yeah. New camera means new software, or JPEGs forever. It's Adobe's little trap. Cheers, --M. On 02/04/2010, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote: Joseph McAllister wrote: On Apr 1, 2010, at 07:51 , P. J. Alling wrote: On 4/1/2010 7:34 AM, Doug Franklin wrote: On 2010-04-01 3:31,

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-04-02 Thread Otis C. Wright, Jr.
On the plus side, I have always been able reach product support at Adobe much quicker than most, bet resolutions faster, and they have released software to run on another PC while I was travelling very quickly really helping me out of a bind. I'm not that displeased with the Adobe. Roxio and

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-04-02 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Miserere Subject: Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and Yeah. New camera means new software, or JPEGs forever. It's Adobe's little trap. One can always shoot DNG. It's Adobe's little workaround for this. And it works very well. William Robb

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-04-02 Thread Mark Roberts
William Robb wrote: From: Miserere They're worse: Microsoft maintains a really quite remarkable degree of backwards compatibility. But when Photoshop CS5 comes out you can be sure that subsequent versions of Camera Raw will be deliberately crippled so as to *not* work in CS4 and earlier.

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-04-01 Thread mike wilson
William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Joseph McAllister Subject: Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and I'm sitting here now trying to get the courage up to install my 6 mo. old new copy of OS 10.6 and Aperture 3.0 (and then doing

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-04-01 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2010-04-01 3:31, mike wilson wrote: Yes but Adobe just doesn't. That's why, Content Aware Fill or not, I'll think long and hard before dropping the money for the updated Photoshop. Adobe has a particularly nasty belief that they own my computer and can do whatever they want ... well,

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-04-01 Thread P. J. Alling
On 4/1/2010 7:34 AM, Doug Franklin wrote: On 2010-04-01 3:31, mike wilson wrote: Yes but Adobe just doesn't. That's why, Content Aware Fill or not, I'll think long and hard before dropping the money for the updated Photoshop. Adobe has a particularly nasty belief that they own my computer

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-31 Thread Joseph McAllister
On Mar 30, 2010, at 15:02 , Ken Waller wrote: Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com Subject: Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and From: Joseph McAllister None of the above solves the

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-31 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Joseph McAllister Subject: Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and I'm sitting here now trying to get the courage up to install my 6 mo. old new copy of OS 10.6 and Aperture 3.0 (and then doing the since released updates) but have to first do

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-31 Thread Stan Halpin
- Original Message - From: Joseph McAllister Subject: Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and I'm sitting here now trying to get the courage up to install my 6 mo. old new copy of OS 10.6 and Aperture 3.0 (and then doing the since released updates) but have to

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-30 Thread Joseph McAllister
On Mar 29, 2010, at 09:24 , Igor Roshchin wrote: I had a similar problem 2-3 months ago. (Ecke might be recalling that thread.) In my case it was the lens distortion correction turned on. In general, - I find that any option requiring post-processing slows down the camera. The first time I

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-30 Thread John Sessoms
From: Joseph McAllister None of the above solves the occasional way out of white balance image that happens. See: http://homepage.mac.com/jomac/Test%20%20Anomalies/ I had a magazine pro tell me that instead of Auto White Balance or setting custom white balance, he leaves his set on Daylight

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-30 Thread Ken Waller
Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com Subject: Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and From: Joseph McAllister None of the above solves the occasional way out of white balance image that

K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-29 Thread 272yb
Well my K 7 is also acting up. It is taking a long time to write to the card and you can not keep your finger on the shutter button to keep shooting, you have to release your finger to shoot again.No five frames a second, hell no frames a second. No matter what program the camera is in. But I

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-29 Thread eckinator
when was the last time you formatted the card? cheers ecke 2010/3/29 27...@comcast.net: Well my K 7 is also acting up. It is taking a long time to write to the card and you can not keep your finger on the shutter button to keep shooting, you have to release your finger to  shoot again.No

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-29 Thread 272yb
It even acts this way with no card in it. Also the card was new. A SanDisk 8 gig Extreme 3. - Original Message - From: eckinator eckina...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 9:29:58 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: K 7 taking a

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-29 Thread eckinator
ok i am lost but i remember a thread here some time ago with a similar issue that turned out to be a rather obscure setting? good luck ecke 2010/3/29 27...@comcast.net: It even acts this way with no card in it. Also the card was new. A SanDisk 8 gig Extreme 3. - Original Message -

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-29 Thread P N Stenquist
Try it with a different card for starters. Paul On Mar 29, 2010, at 9:28 AM, 27...@comcast.net wrote: Well my K 7 is also acting up. It is taking a long time to write to the card and you can not keep your finger on the shutter button to keep shooting, you have to release your finger to

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-29 Thread Jaume Lahuerta
Maybe the camera correcting the image for distortions, etc after every shot? Jaume - Mensaje original De: eckinator eckina...@gmail.com Para: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Enviado: lun,29 marzo, 2010 15:44 Asunto: Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and ok i am

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-29 Thread P N Stenquist
On Mar 29, 2010, at 9:56 AM, Jaume Lahuerta wrote: Maybe the camera correcting the image for distortions, etc after every shot? That's quite likely if you're shooting jpegs. Something in your jpeg settings could be the cause of the magenta cast. I once did a manual adjustment on the

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-29 Thread Bob Sullivan
Joe, What have you set-up on the camera menu? Look at the top button of the 4 way controller. (time delay symbol) When you press it, are you set-up for continuous shooting? Or are you on single exposure??? Regards, Bob S. On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:19 AM, P N Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-29 Thread 272yb
Paul, the magenta issue is with the K20d, AS far as the K7, I reset every thing back to factory specs and it is still the same..Thanks Joe - Original Message - From: P N Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 10:19:03 AM

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-29 Thread 272yb
Bob, your right, But I never did change anything. Now I feel like such a fool. The one thing I over looked. The other day I let some one use the camera for a few shots, So who knows...Thank You, Thank You, Joe - Original Message - From: Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com To:

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-29 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: 27...@comcast.net Subject: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and Well my K 7 is also acting up. It is taking a long time to write to the card and you can not keep your finger on the shutter button to keep shooting, you have to release your finger

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-29 Thread Bob Sullivan
Ah, the joy of all things being just a simple button press away on the menu... :-) Bob S. On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:02 AM, 27...@comcast.net wrote: Bob, your right, But I never did change anything. Now I feel like such a fool. The one thing I over looked. The other day I let some one use

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-29 Thread Sam L
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:02 AM, 27...@comcast.net wrote: Bob, your right, But I never did change anything. Now I feel like such a fool. The one thing I over looked. The other day I let some one use the camera for a few shots, So who knows...Thank You, Thank You, Joe The more humans that

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-29 Thread Igor Roshchin
Joe, I had a similar problem 2-3 months ago. (Ecke might be recalling that thread.) In my case it was the lens distortion correction turned on. In general, - I find that any option requiring post-processing slows down the camera. Igor -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-29 Thread Boris Liberman
Depending on the vendor from where you bought the card, there is a non-negative probability that you have a fake card. It then may be simply too slow. Boris On 3/29/2010 4:36 PM, 27...@comcast.net wrote: It even acts this way with no card in it. Also the card was new. A SanDisk 8 gig

K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-29 Thread John Sessoms
From: 27...@comcast.net Well my K 7 is also acting up. It is taking a long time to write to the card and you can not keep your finger on the shutter button to keep shooting, you have to release your finger to shoot again.No five frames a second, hell no frames a second. No matter what program

Re: K 7 taking a long time to write to card and

2010-03-29 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2010-03-29 11:03, William Robb wrote: Also, I've found it helpful to format the card with my computer (full format, not quick) and then format it again in the camera from time to time. I just got into the habit of formatting the card with the camera to erase it each time I upload the