Thanks Jan van Wijk This is really great news. Hopefully I´ll get mine before my summer holliday starts July 18th. :-)
Yes, the K-5 is superior to the K-7 in many ways. I can shoot at kids birthday parties without having to use a flash. Often a flash is very annoying for guests at a party or any other social event. The only thing I dislike is the combined funktion of the focus point selector/menu selector. It´s too time consuming on the fly. And I just hope Ricoh is able to continue making very high quality DSLR cameras, lenses and accessories after the Ricoh take over in October 2011. I am finaly turning professionel (freelancer) in January next year, and I'm NOT planning on shifting too Canon or Nikon, since I like my rather large Pentax outfit a lot. Regards Jens -- Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. On Jul 3, 2011 14:23 "Jan van Wijk" <pen...@dfsee.com> wrote: > Hi Jens, > On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:34:27 +0200 Jens wrote: > > > >Finally Pentax is offering a GPS Unit for the Flash Hot shoe. > >The Pentax O-GPS1. > > Yes, I have one on order ... > (even if price/availability is unknown here in the Netherlands :-) > > >It should be available this month. > > > >According to reiews it's quite advanced - with a compas (records the > >shooting direction) and more. > > Indeed, and some navigation and astro-tracking features too. > > >As a matter of fact I allready own three third party units, among > >which is a nice Columbus (which has a memory card for long trips) and > >a JOBO, a hot-shoe unit, > that will track only when the shutter is fired - that is provided that > the shutter speed is not faster than flash sync speed. In order to > deal with this flaw it has a > tracking button which I can press from time to time, whenever I'm > using faster shutter speeds. Not bad - but it still requires some > annoying syncronizing in the > computer after the shooting. This is time consuming and a really a > PITA having to do this. > > Yes, I never started on that, because of the time involved ... > > >What I really whish for is a unit that will write the GPS data > >directly into the Meta Data of my image files ON THE FLY. No after > >syncronising at the computer. > Something like the unit Nikon is offering for thier DSLR's. I'd gladly > pay a freat deal of money for a unit like this for my K-5!!! > > > >I wonder if the new Pentax GPS Unit can do this. Otherwise I'd > >probably not be interested in buying one. Do you guys know how the > >Pentaxit works? > > Yes, it does record the location and direction info into JPG as well > as RAW images. > > > This GPS anouncement actually was the final push to make me get a K5 > (had a K10D and K7). > Another was that my son's ISTDS got stolen a few weeks back, so I will > hand down the K10D > and use the K7 as a backup to the K5 from now on. > > BTW: > The K5 low light capabilities are amazing compared to the K10D/K7. > 3200 ISO captures are quite usable! > > Regards, JvW > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery > > > -- > 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.
