I feel your pain, but in the other direction. I've been using Win2K on
my desktop it seems like forever. It's stable, does pretty much what I
need, and I have no wish to upgrade. However the latest version of
Pentax Digital Photo Utility, while it installs on Win2K wouldn't run.
I was able to find a Hack to make it work, but no new version of any of
the software I'm using for photography officially runs on Win2K. I
don't blame Pentax particularly. It's a small player and it needs to
carefully target where they put R&D money. I'm just happy my lenses
work on my camera.
By the way, I think I read somewhere that the 645D will eventually
support some kind of remote operation. When that happens I expect that
the K-5/7 cameras will magically gain that ability. That still won't
help you if you;re still using a K20 unfortunately.
On 1/28/2011 2:58 PM, Robert Blakely wrote:
I'm currently pissed at PEXTAX corp.
After a hiatus due to severe injury, I decided to go out with my buddies to
(outside) Anza, CA to image the stars. I really don't have the many
Benjamins to spend on an astro camera so do this with my K20D and I use the
PENTAX Remote Assistant to do this. Fine. Now during the hiatus, I upgraded
my computers to Windows 7. Well, it seems that the Remote Assistant will
only work up through Vista!!! PENTAX has no plans to upgrade this software
and all their cameras after the K20D will not offer fully remote
operation!!! So much for the company of compatibility. Welcome to the
company of decreasing capability.
Now this is a USB connection. There are standards. If the folks that wrote
the software had kept this in mind when writing the interface, there would
be no compatibility problem.
FYI, this feature is useful not just for astrophotography, but also medical
imaging, Industrial imaging, surveillance imaging and many other imaging
uses where automated remote operation is immensely a useful and necessary.
I am considering dumping all my (considerable) Pentax equipment and
converting to (probably) Nikon. At least the functionality I need will
always be there as I upgrade - not only the camera equipment but also my
necessary ancillary equipment.
Call me pissed in California.
Bob...
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