Re: OT. newly found info

2015-11-13 Thread David J Brooks
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Bill wrote: > On 11/13/2015 8:37 AM, David J Brooks wrote: >> >> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Bill wrote: >>> >>> On 11/12/2015 4:42 PM, David J Brooks wrote: It took some diving into

Re: OT. newly found info

2015-11-13 Thread David J Brooks
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Bill wrote: > On 11/12/2015 4:42 PM, David J Brooks wrote: >> >> It took some diving into googledom to find out that stuff. The manual >> is at best an Ikea reject.:-) >> > > Wait until you start dealing with the documentation they

Re: OT. newly found info

2015-11-13 Thread Bill
On 11/13/2015 8:37 AM, David J Brooks wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Bill wrote: On 11/12/2015 4:42 PM, David J Brooks wrote: It took some diving into googledom to find out that stuff. The manual is at best an Ikea reject.:-) Wait until you start

Re: OT. newly found info

2015-11-12 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 12/11/15, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: >It's one of Fuji's more inscrutable settings. >Silent mode turns off the flash. Actually I love that feature as it disables and shutter noise and the AE assist lamp - makes the camera really undetectable in operation. -- Cheers, Cotty

Re: OT. newly found info

2015-11-12 Thread P.J. Alling
It's like a Toshiba laptop. Well, some models at least. There's no dedicated WiFi switch, there's a, not particularly well marked, keyboard combination to turn WiFi on and off. The documentation is sorely lacking in explaining this. The urge to throw said laptop out a window was nearly

Re: OT. newly found info

2015-11-12 Thread Marco Alpert
It is odd. If I had to guess, I suppose that the logic might be that if you've selected silent mode, it's because you're in a situation where you have to remain inconspicuous and a flash firing would be a problem, so they're protecting you from yourself. But that's giving them a big benefit of

Re: OT. newly found info

2015-11-12 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 12/11/15, Steve Cottrell, discombobulated, unleashed: >More than that, it disables the AF assist lamp and the shutter noise. >These things are all turned on/off by a single long press on one button >the back. Easy. Just to be clear: You have a camera, you want the shutter sound louder or

Re: OT. newly found info

2015-11-12 Thread P.J. Alling
That sounds like a stupid programmer trick to me. On 11/12/2015 1:57 PM, David J Brooks wrote: So, since buying my X30 i have been trying to figure out why the pop up flash would not fire, and why i could not access its menu using the flash icon. I have read the manual 4 times, 5 is right out.

Re: OT. newly found info

2015-11-12 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 12/11/15, David J Brooks, discombobulated, unleashed: >So, since buying my X30 i have been trying to figure out why the pop >up flash would not fire, and why i could not access its menu using the >flash icon. I have read the manual 4 times, 5 is right out. So after >doing some netinfomationing

Re: OT. newly found info

2015-11-12 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 12/11/15, Marco Alpert, discombobulated, unleashed: >It is odd. If I had to guess, I suppose that the logic might be that if >you've selected silent mode, it's because you're in a situation where >you have to remain inconspicuous and a flash firing would be a problem, >so they're protecting

Re: OT. newly found info

2015-11-12 Thread steve harley
On 2015-11-12 12:37 , Marco Alpert wrote: It is odd. If I had to guess, I suppose that the logic might be that if you've selected silent mode, it's because you're in a situation where you have to remain inconspicuous and a flash firing would be a problem, so they're protecting you from

Re: OT. newly found info

2015-11-12 Thread David J Brooks
It took some diving into googledom to find out that stuff. The manual is at best an Ikea reject.:-) Dave On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > On 12/11/15, Steve Cottrell, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>More than that, it disables the AF assist lamp and

Re: OT. newly found info

2015-11-12 Thread Bill
On 11/12/2015 4:42 PM, David J Brooks wrote: It took some diving into googledom to find out that stuff. The manual is at best an Ikea reject.:-) Wait until you start dealing with the documentation they write for updates. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT. newly found info

2015-11-12 Thread John
On 11/12/2015 1:57 PM, David J Brooks wrote: So, since buying my X30 i have been trying to figure out why the pop up flash would not fire, and why i could not access its menu using the flash icon. I have read the manual 4 times, 5 is right out. So after doing some netinfomationing i discovered

OT. newly found info

2015-11-12 Thread David J Brooks
So, since buying my X30 i have been trying to figure out why the pop up flash would not fire, and why i could not access its menu using the flash icon. I have read the manual 4 times, 5 is right out. So after doing some netinfomationing i discovered that the flash will not work if the camera;s

Re: OT. newly found info

2015-11-12 Thread Bill
On 11/12/2015 12:57 PM, David J Brooks wrote: So, since buying my X30 i have been trying to figure out why the pop up flash would not fire, and why i could not access its menu using the flash icon. I have read the manual 4 times, 5 is right out. So after doing some netinfomationing i discovered