Re: Re: Pentax GPS Unit - Pentax O-GPS1
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.
Re: Re: Pentax GPS Unit - Pentax O-GPS1
Thanks Rob. I can harldy wait for it to get to my home mailbox :-) Jens -- Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. On Jul 3, 2011 12:25 Rob Studdert distudio.p...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 July 2011 19:56, Jens p...@planfoto.dk wrote: Well - I just ordered (an payed for) one anyway. The dpreview review said that it will write data directly into the images (meta data). This is GREAT NEWS. Bravo Pentax! I wanted such a device for YEARS. At 219 Euros (in Gernany) it will save me a lot of time, provided there's no need for after syncronization. It integrates with the DSLR bodies to write the GPS data directly into the image files according to the official specifications. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
Re: Pentax GPS Unit - Pentax O-GPS1
Well - I just ordered (an payed for) one anyway. The dpreview review said that it will write data directly into the images (meta data). This is GREAT NEWS. Bravo Pentax! I wanted such a device for YEARS. At 219 Euros (in Gernany) it will save me a lot of time, provided there's no need for after syncronization. Regards Jens -- Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. On Jul 3, 2011 11:34 Jens p...@planfoto.dk wrote: Finally Pentax is offering a GPS Unit for the Flash Hot shoe. The Pentax O-GPS1. It should be available this month. According to reiews it's quite advanced - with a compas (records the shooting direction) and more. 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. 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? Regards Jens -- Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. -- 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.
Re: Pentax GPS Unit - Pentax O-GPS1
On 3 July 2011 19:56, Jens p...@planfoto.dk wrote: Well - I just ordered (an payed for) one anyway. The dpreview review said that it will write data directly into the images (meta data). This is GREAT NEWS. Bravo Pentax! I wanted such a device for YEARS. At 219 Euros (in Gernany) it will save me a lot of time, provided there's no need for after syncronization. It integrates with the DSLR bodies to write the GPS data directly into the image files according to the official specifications. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
Re: Pentax GPS Unit - Pentax O-GPS1
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.
RE: Pentax GPS Unit - Pentax O-GPS1
This GPS anouncement actually was the final push to make me get a K5 (had a K10D and K7). I'm hoping Leica will bring out a nice brass astrolabe for the M8, and an amanuensis to record its findings. B -- 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.
Re: Pentax GPS Unit - Pentax O-GPS1
On Jul 3, 2011, at 6:55 AM, Bob W wrote: This GPS anouncement actually was the final push to make me get a K5 (had a K10D and K7). I'm hoping Leica will bring out a nice brass astrolabe for the M8, and an amanuensis to record its findings. Mark, when you're back from Ireland B -- 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. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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.
