Like you, I was never a big fan of my K10D. I like my K7 much better. On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 2:34 PM, John Celio <n...@neovenator.com> wrote: > It took forever for my K-5 battery to charge last night, but as soon as that > light turned off I upgraded the firmware and started playing around with the > settings. The first photos (and video) I took were all of my cat, so I will > spare you from having to see that. > > Holy crap, this thing is lightyears ahead of my K10D. I was thinking of > keeping the K10D as a backup, but I think it may just end up in permanent > storage (no one will want this lemon of a camera, so I'm not going to try to > sell it). The build and layout feels nothing like the Pentaxes I'm used to. > I was out of the loop for so long! > > My only negative comment so far is that the focus-assist lamp is almost > useless when using a large lens like the DA* 16-50. You have to be back > pretty far for the light to illuminate near the center of the frame. I have > no idea where they could have put it that would have been better, however. > > Anyway, I'm going to spend a good chunk of today looking for things to > photograph and playing with this amazing piece of technology. It feels great > to finally be excited about photography again! > > John > > -- > http://www.jacelio.com > > > -----Original Message----- From: John Celio > Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 1:46 PM > To: PDML@pdml.net > Subject: Enablements > > My K-5 is here! The UPS guy dropped it off this morning, but since I'm > at work I haven't had a chance to dive in yet. The box has been > whispering at me all day, begging me to open it up and retrieve my > prize, but I must resist its siren call and finish this damn project my > boss gave me this morning. Oh the torture! Quiet your song, digital > temptress! > > Did I mention last month that I got a new laptop? Well, more of a > netbook. It was free from Google and came installed with Chrome OS > (beta, of course). I was picked to be part of the Chrome OS Pilot > Program, so I've been helping test the OS and the hardware, and so far I > think it's pretty great for a netbook. Still buggy and there are lots of > features that haven't been implemented yet (like a working file browser > and controls for the built-in webcam), but since it's pretty much the > Chrome browser running a laptop, it does what I expect and performs > pretty well. It should be pretty awesome when it's ready for general > consumption. > > > John > > -- > http://www.jacelio.com > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. >
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