Yeah, I've done that a couple of times too. I would like to try one of those
Wi-Fi enabled cards but they are not readily available in SA yet. Do any
PDMLers have hands on experience?
I see they managed to get the K3 manual into only 114 pages with better
formatting. The K7 manual is 334 pages.
Alan
-----Original Message-----
From: Darren Addy
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 5:08 PM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: Re: K-3 manual now available (PDF)
And I had not realized that it has a built-in speaker! Verbal alerts?
I could *really* use a verbal alert tied to the motion detectors on
the camera, so that the moment I pick it up it can announce: "No card
in camera, moron!"
I'd prefer that to discovering it after I have walked far away from
the cards (normally stuck in my computer/card readers) and taken an
exposure.
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Kenneth Waller <[email protected]>
wrote:
Thanks Stan. I carry the manual with me all the time and have referred to
it several times when some unusual camera operation suddenly occurs. Other
than cost, I don't understand how Nikon justifies no hard copy.
-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Halpin <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: K-3 manual now available (PDF)
Ken - I have started into the K-3 manual Darren posted. It looks exactly
like the pdf versions of K10, K20, K5, & K5ii manuals that I have used
before. Same layout, same level of detail on descriptions of e.g. menu
functions, etc. And the "What is in the box?" page shows that the hardcopy
manual is included.
One thing that strikes me so far is how much more prominent the
video-related functions are. And I had not realized that it has a built-in
speaker! Verbal alerts? "Hey dummy, the flash won't work until you turn it
on!" I'll read more tomorrow. . .
stan
On Oct 23, 2013, at 11:05 PM, Kenneth Waller wrote:
Is the manual on a cd or is it a hard copy. I recently bought a Nikon
Coolpix 7100 with the manual on a cd - totally worthless IMO!
-----Original Message-----
From: Darren Addy <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: K-3 manual now available (PDF)
I may be wrong about this, but since [Focus Peaking] is set to [ON] in
[Live View] of the [Camera 3] menu, it may be possible to save this
(along with other preferences) to one of the three USER modes.
The "Saving Frequently Used Settings" on page 75 says that [Camera
1-4] menu settings "(with exceptions)" can be saved to a USER mode.
Hopefully [Focus Peaking] isn't one of those exceptions.
You could then Edit the USER1/2/3 mode name to: FOCUS-PEAKING.
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]>
wrote:
The new manual uses a "2 vertical pages per horizontal sheet of paper"
format (prints in Landscape) to save paper. The k-3 manual is 114
pages (printed) while the K-5ii/iis manual was 336 pages. The K-3 is
therefore the equivalent of 228 pages in the K-5ii/iis format.
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]>
wrote:
Interestingly, SEPARATE from the "Anti-Aliasing Filter Simulator"
there is a "Color Moire Correction" *1 and *2 to be found in the
Playback Mode Palette Items. It says "The Color Moire Correction
function can be used only for the JPEG images captured with this
camera". I'm not sure what that means. It sounds like it uses the
JPEG
as the source file and then saves another corrected JPEG. Not sure
why
it would not use the RAW file as the source and then save a corrected
JPEG.
By the way, all of these in-camera editing and processing of image
now
require you to select whether you want the processed file saved to
SD1
or SD2 now.
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]>
wrote:
HDR Capture brings a feature that many of us have wanted: The
ability
to change the Exposure Bracket value by +/- 1, +/-2, or *** +/-3
***.
In fact, this appears to be true HDR Capture now. It will save
bracketed RAW or RAW+ files rather than working in only JPEG (and
doing the combining FOR you in-camera).
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]>
wrote:
Not a lot of new light shed on the Pentax dedicated FLUCARD.
Page 30 says SD2 slot is for FLUCARD or Eye-Fi card (or simply 2nd
SD card).
Pg. 37 details the "memory card settings". You have 3 settings:
Sequential Use: use two SD cards sequentially (fill 1 then use 2)
Save to Both (redundancy)
Separate RAW/JPEG (RAW goes to SD1 and JPEG goes to SD2)
Page 80 describes "Using a Wirelss Memory Card" and refers to
Eye-Fi or FLUCARD.
Flucard has only ON or OFF for "Enables/Disables Wireless data
transfer with Flucard" while the Eye-Fi has three choices:
Auto
Select
Off
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Darren Addy
<[email protected]> wrote:
The file 'K3-OPM-EN.pdf' (10.1 MB) is available for download at
<
http://dropbox.unl.edu/uploads/20131106/f18c6bb0169fccba/K3-OPM-EN.pdf
for the next 14 days.
It will be removed after Wednesday, November 6, 2013.
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