Alright, this seems stupid at this late date, but dammit, here goes. I
was looking for an obscure function in the K-5II and couldn't remember
where in the menu system it was, or for that matter if it wasn't a
figment of my imagination...
So I dug out the paper manual, and thought it would be so much easier to
search this electronically. Hum, never looked on the CD that came with
the camera, already had hacked Pentax Camera Utility 4 onto my computer
so I didn't need to update that, much prefer to read on paper, but
electronic search so much easier, so I dig out the CD, and...
The manual isn't on the CD. Every other Pentax DSRL I've owned, had the
manual on the CD, not having it there seems stupid, it really costs
almost nothing to include an electronic copy. Oh, well not a biggie,
just download it...
Visit Ricoh-Immaging.com, download page and no manual for the K-5II or
IIs. Try Ricoh Japan, and can't load the page that seems to be broken.
Figure what the heck, the K-5 is probably close enough, download that
manual.
But then I noticed that there were other "problems". As long as I was
there I figured I'd check for the latest version of PCU4 after all
they've done updates and there might be a new one. Not available, you
can update PCU5, from the K-5IIs but not PCU4, but my K-5II came with
PCU4 can't officially update to 5 from that.
What the F*&K is someone my position supposed to do? Ricoh has plugged
the hole that let you pretty easily download and update later versions
of the PCU than that which came with you camera. That limitation always
seemed pretty stupid and petty, after all who would actually want the
PCU if they didn't actually own a Pentax camera?
But I'm kind of disgusted, really for a while there support for older
Pentax cameras was sometimes spotty, but this actually seems venial.
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