Re: Pentax software updates

2008-06-08 Thread Derby Chang

Ummm...Vista recognises the K10D fine. The problem is, the Pentax 
software does not.

D




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 Get thee behind me Vista, thou fiend of Microsoft...

 No I haven't and hope I'll never have to...

 Derby Chang wrote:
   
 Derby Chang wrote:
   
 
 Dario Bonazza wrote:
 
   
 Not yet satisfied, here are some software updates:
 http://www.pentax.jp/english/support/

 Dario

   
   
 
 Cool. Remote assistant works with Vista now? Must try it

 D

 
   
 Hmmm...has anyone tried Remote Assistant 3.51 on Vista with a K10D? 
 Plugging in the camera, Windows sees the removable device. But Remote 
 Assistant does not. Didn't work in the previous version either.

 D

   
 


   


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Re: Pentax software updates

2008-06-08 Thread mike wilson
After excising all the superfluous crap that comes with it (and, previous to 
that, working out _how_ to excise the superfluous crap) I find that Vista is 
apparently better than XP, which croaked on me after I installed the 
(downloaded by myself from Microsoft) Service Pack III.

It's only been two weeks, though.
 
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 Get thee behind me Vista, thou fiend of Microsoft...
 
 No I haven't and hope I'll never have to...
 
 Derby Chang wrote:
  Derby Chang wrote:

  Dario Bonazza wrote:
  
  Not yet satisfied, here are some software updates:
  http://www.pentax.jp/english/support/
 
  Dario
 


  Cool. Remote assistant works with Vista now? Must try it
 
  D
 
  
 
  Hmmm...has anyone tried Remote Assistant 3.51 on Vista with a K10D? 
  Plugging in the camera, Windows sees the removable device. But Remote 
  Assistant does not. Didn't work in the previous version either.
 
  D
 

 
 
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Re: Pentax software updates

2008-06-08 Thread P. J. Alling
There are so many ways that Vista can go wrong, and so much superfluous 
crap that you can't get rid of, because it's built into the basic OS 
that I won't have it on any hardware I own.  Hell I don't run XP on 
anything I'm using, I's still using Win2K, which seems to be 
extraordinarily stable, and fast compared to XP or Vista. 

mike wilson wrote:
 After excising all the superfluous crap that comes with it (and, previous to 
 that, working out _how_ to excise the superfluous crap) I find that Vista is 
 apparently better than XP, which croaked on me after I installed the 
 (downloaded by myself from Microsoft) Service Pack III.

 It's only been two weeks, though.
   
 From: P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Get thee behind me Vista, thou fiend of Microsoft...

 No I haven't and hope I'll never have to...

 Derby Chang wrote:
 
 Derby Chang wrote:
   
   
 Dario Bonazza wrote:
 
 
 Not yet satisfied, here are some software updates:
 http://www.pentax.jp/english/support/

 Dario

   
   
   
 Cool. Remote assistant works with Vista now? Must try it

 D

 
 
 Hmmm...has anyone tried Remote Assistant 3.51 on Vista with a K10D? 
 Plugging in the camera, Windows sees the removable device. But Remote 
 Assistant does not. Didn't work in the previous version either.

 D

   
   
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Re: Pentax software updates

2008-06-08 Thread Eugene Homme
Pentax software needs to be run in Administrator mode on Vista in order 
to function correctly. Right click
on the icon and select Run as Adminstrator if you haven't tried that yet.

Derby Chang wrote:
 Ummm...Vista recognises the K10D fine. The problem is, the Pentax 
 software does not.

 D




 P. J. Alling wrote:
   
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 Get thee behind me Vista, thou fiend of Microsoft...

 No I haven't and hope I'll never have to...

 Derby Chang wrote:
   
 
 Derby Chang wrote:
   
 
   
 Dario Bonazza wrote:
 
   
 
 Not yet satisfied, here are some software updates:
 http://www.pentax.jp/english/support/

 Dario

   
   
 
   
 Cool. Remote assistant works with Vista now? Must try it

 D

 
   
 
 Hmmm...has anyone tried Remote Assistant 3.51 on Vista with a K10D? 
 Plugging in the camera, Windows sees the removable device. But Remote 
 Assistant does not. Didn't work in the previous version either.

 D

   
 
   
   
 


   


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Re: Pentax software updates

2008-06-08 Thread Derby Chang
Excellent. Thanks Eugene. Oddly, I'm using a logon that has admin 
privileges, but the software seems to need to be told especially.

Derby




Eugene Homme wrote:
 Pentax software needs to be run in Administrator mode on Vista in order 
 to function correctly. Right click
 on the icon and select Run as Adminstrator if you haven't tried that yet.

 Derby Chang wrote:
   
 Ummm...Vista recognises the K10D fine. The problem is, the Pentax 
 software does not.

 D




 P. J. Alling wrote:
   
 
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 Get thee behind me Vista, thou fiend of Microsoft...

 No I haven't and hope I'll never have to...

 Derby Chang wrote:
   
 
   
 Derby Chang wrote:
   
 
   
 
 Dario Bonazza wrote:
 
   
 
   
 Not yet satisfied, here are some software updates:
 http://www.pentax.jp/english/support/

 Dario

   
   
 
   
 
 Cool. Remote assistant works with Vista now? Must try it

 D

 
   
 
   
 Hmmm...has anyone tried Remote Assistant 3.51 on Vista with a K10D? 
 Plugging in the camera, Windows sees the removable device. But Remote 
 Assistant does not. Didn't work in the previous version either.

 D

   
 
   
 
   
 
   
   
 


   


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Re: Pentax software updates

2008-06-08 Thread Eugene Homme
You're welcome. By the way, for any Linux fans in PDML land, there is an 
equivalent to the
Pentax remote assistant software for the Linux OS. It's on 
sourceforge.net with the name PK-remote
and needs to be downloaded and compiled locally to work (no binary 
packages yet).  It's kind of rough
around the edges with only one developer working on it but the basic 
functionality is there.


Derby Chang wrote:
 Excellent. Thanks Eugene. Oddly, I'm using a logon that has admin 
 privileges, but the software seems to need to be told especially.

 Derby

 Eugene Homme wrote:
   
 Pentax software needs to be run in Administrator mode on Vista in order 
 to function correctly. Right click
 on the icon and select Run as Adminstrator if you haven't tried that yet.

 Derby Chang wrote:
   
 
 Ummm...Vista recognises the K10D fine. The problem is, the Pentax 
 software does not.

 D

   
   


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Re: Pentax software updates

2008-06-07 Thread Derby Chang
Derby Chang wrote:
 Dario Bonazza wrote:
 Not yet satisfied, here are some software updates:
 http://www.pentax.jp/english/support/

 Dario

   

 Cool. Remote assistant works with Vista now? Must try it

 D


Hmmm...has anyone tried Remote Assistant 3.51 on Vista with a K10D? 
Plugging in the camera, Windows sees the removable device. But Remote 
Assistant does not. Didn't work in the previous version either.

D

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Re: Pentax software updates

2008-06-07 Thread P. J. Alling
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Get thee behind me Vista, thou fiend of Microsoft...

No I haven't and hope I'll never have to...

Derby Chang wrote:
 Derby Chang wrote:
   
 Dario Bonazza wrote:
 
 Not yet satisfied, here are some software updates:
 http://www.pentax.jp/english/support/

 Dario

   
   
 Cool. Remote assistant works with Vista now? Must try it

 D

 

 Hmmm...has anyone tried Remote Assistant 3.51 on Vista with a K10D? 
 Plugging in the camera, Windows sees the removable device. But Remote 
 Assistant does not. Didn't work in the previous version either.

 D

   


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Pentax software updates

2008-06-04 Thread Dario Bonazza
Not yet satisfied, here are some software updates:
http://www.pentax.jp/english/support/

Dario

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Re: Pentax software updates

2008-06-04 Thread Derby Chang
Dario Bonazza wrote:
 Not yet satisfied, here are some software updates:
 http://www.pentax.jp/english/support/

 Dario

   

Cool. Remote assistant works with Vista now? Must try it

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Re: More pentax software updates?

2004-03-09 Thread Rob Studdert
On 9 Mar 2004 at 12:08, Rob Brigham wrote:

 http://www.pentax.co.jp/japan/support/download_digital.html
 
 Seems to be a new version 1.11 (from 1.10) of photo-browser and
 photo-laboratory released yesterday.

Thanks for the heads-up, it seems to have solved quite a few problems (still a 
pretty poor piece of SW though). I skipped the last version owing to the fact 
that it would have caused me great hassles due to the widely reported third 
party lens issues. 

What I didn't remember was that you had to have the original disc on hand. 
Since I'd simply down-loaded the original files (and pdf manual) they were all 
still packed away unopened (at the bottom of a big box of course). Do they 
think someone would be idiot enough to steal?

Cheers,


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Re: More pentax software updates?

2004-03-09 Thread Christian
- Original Message - 
From: Rob Studdert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 On 9 Mar 2004 at 12:08, Rob Brigham wrote:

  http://www.pentax.co.jp/japan/support/download_digital.html
 
  Seems to be a new version 1.11 (from 1.10) of photo-browser and
  photo-laboratory released yesterday.

 Thanks for the heads-up, it seems to have solved quite a few problems
(still a
 pretty poor piece of SW though). I skipped the last version owing to the
fact
 that it would have caused me great hassles due to the widely reported
third
 party lens issues.

I never had a problem with this and I use Sigma and Vivitar lenses (along
with Pentax, of course)

Christian



Re: More pentax software updates?

2004-03-09 Thread Rob Studdert
On 9 Mar 2004 at 10:41, Christian wrote:

 I never had a problem with this and I use Sigma and Vivitar lenses (along
 with Pentax, of course)

I guess you were lucky, I could not afford it not to work. From the recent 
update page:

CHANGES

Corrected a bug in Photo Browser 1.10 that would sometimes prevent the display 
of images when taken using a non-Pentax lens. 

Cheers,


Rob Studdert
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Re: More pentax software updates?

2004-03-09 Thread Bruce Dayton
The actual failure occurs when your lens gives it's name as 'blank' -
as in nothing.  I have several 3rd party lenses and two of them give this type of name.
One of them reports as an FA lens and the another reports -- --.  I'm
pretty sure it is in the parser of the exif data that is blowing up on
unexpected (lack of) data.

-- 
Best regards,
Bruce


Tuesday, March 9, 2004, 2:12:36 PM, you wrote:

C Yeah, I heard about it from the list and was worried that I would have a
C problem with my non-pentax lenses, but never did.  I could have always
C downgraded if I did.  The interesting thing to me is that my SMC-A lenses
C show up as -A Lens as does my Vivitar.  If it didn't work for non-Pentax
C lenses, you would think that it would not have worked for SMC-A lenses as
C well.  My Sigma 300/4 still shows up as Pentax FA 300/4.5 IF...

C I still think the software blows from a user-interface point of view.  I
C want a re-sizable, zoomable window for photolab and a histogram with sliders
C like the PS levels tool. and really, just a better tool layout...

C Christian


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C From: Rob Studdert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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C Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 6:01 PM
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 On 9 Mar 2004 at 10:41, Christian wrote:

  I never had a problem with this and I use Sigma and Vivitar lenses
C (along
  with Pentax, of course)

 I guess you were lucky, I could not afford it not to work. From the recent
 update page:

 CHANGES

 Corrected a bug in Photo Browser 1.10 that would sometimes prevent the
C display
 of images when taken using a non-Pentax lens. 

 Cheers,


 Rob Studdert
 HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA
 Tel +61-2-9554-4110
 UTC(GMT)  +10 Hours
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998






pentax software updates

2004-02-20 Thread edwin
 http://www.pentaxusa.com/digitalupdate/
 
 Check out the latest firmware and software updates from PENTAX to 
 enhance the performance of your digital camera. 
 *istD
 
* *istD Firmware Update Version 1.10
  http://www.pentaxusa.com/products/cameras/istd/istd_fw_110.htm
* *istD Photo Browser/Laboratory Update V.1.10
  http://www.pentaxusa.com/products/cameras/istd/istd_swupdate.htm
* RAW Plugin Module for Photoshop
  http://www.pentaxusa.com/digitalupdate/includes/ps_plug.zip
* *istD Photo Browser/Laboratory Update V.1.10
  http://www.pentaxusa.com/digitalupdate/includes/istd_swupdate.zip

What do the Software (not firmware) updates add?  Is it simply support
for the newer EXIF format, or have they made some needed improvements
to the actual functioning of the programs?  I still use Nikon View
(or gqview under linux) to browse *istD pictures because the Nikon
program is much more mature.  Hopefully whatever DSLR from pentax comes
out next will include improved software bundled with it.
I'm contemplating writing my own linux picture desk software since 
nothing I've used does exactly what I want, but it is a hell of a project.

DJE



Re: pentax software updates

2004-02-20 Thread Frits Wüthrich
On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 20:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I'm contemplating writing my own linux picture desk software since 
 nothing I've used does exactly what I want, but it is a hell of a project.
Now, that would be interesting. Let me know when it is ready.
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Re: pentax software updates

2004-02-20 Thread Herb Chong
i don't see anything of importance other than EXIF 2.21 support. even that
is of neglible importance. i really don't see the point of requiring the CD
in the computer. anyone who doesn't have the camera won't want it anyway.

Herb
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Subject: pentax software updates


 What do the Software (not firmware) updates add?  Is it simply support
 for the newer EXIF format, or have they made some needed improvements
 to the actual functioning of the programs?  I still use Nikon View
 (or gqview under linux) to browse *istD pictures because the Nikon
 program is much more mature.  Hopefully whatever DSLR from pentax comes
 out next will include improved software bundled with it.
 I'm contemplating writing my own linux picture desk software since
 nothing I've used does exactly what I want, but it is a hell of a project.