Re: tethering Pentax DSLRs?

2012-07-02 Thread Bruce Walker
n Coyle > Brisbane, Australia > > > > > -Original Message- > From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of > Joseph McAllister > Sent: Sunday, 1 July 2012 2:53 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: tethering Pentax DSLRs?

RE: tethering Pentax DSLRs?

2012-07-01 Thread John Coyle
...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Joseph McAllister Sent: Sunday, 1 July 2012 2:53 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: tethering Pentax DSLRs? I'm trying to see the advantage of having a $10,000 camera (+ for lenses) that Pentax (Hoya-Ricoh) feels like spending the money to write the co

Re: tethering Pentax DSLRs?

2012-07-01 Thread Joseph McAllister
I'm trying to see the advantage of having a $10,000 camera (+ for lenses) that Pentax (Hoya-Ricoh) feels like spending the money to write the code to allow some tethering features (one?) to their buyer base. One would think there are a much higher that 10 to 1 ratio for K5 to 645D. Meaning

Re: tethering Pentax DSLRs?

2012-06-30 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 3:09 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > It works fine with the K20D on XP too.  It's just kind of disappointing that > Pentax has no official tethering option solution for their arguably most > "professional" K mount DSLR to date, or the 645D which shares a lot of it's > firmware,

Re: tethering Pentax DSLRs?

2012-06-30 Thread P. J. Alling
On 6/30/2012 6:58 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: John Coyle wrote: It was the *istD with Version 1 of the Pentax software and a fairly ancient (now) laptop. Could be a lot quicker on a 64-bit system of course. I used the Pentax Remote Assistant tethering software with a K20D and a laptop running Win

Re: tethering Pentax DSLRs?

2012-06-30 Thread Mark Roberts
John Coyle wrote: >It was the *istD with Version 1 of the Pentax software and a fairly ancient >(now) laptop. >Could be a lot quicker on a 64-bit system of course. I used the Pentax Remote Assistant tethering software with a K20D and a laptop running Windows 7. It worked very well. -- Mark Ro

RE: tethering Pentax DSLRs?

2012-06-29 Thread John Coyle
Sent: Saturday, 30 June 2012 12:49 AM To: PDML@pdml.net Subject: Re: tethering Pentax DSLRs? John, Which of the two? Igor Fri Jun 29 02:24:50 EDT 2012 John Coyle wrote: I did use it once, but it was painfully slow! John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -Original Message- From: pdml

Re: tethering Pentax DSLRs?

2012-06-29 Thread Igor Roshchin
John, Which of the two? Igor Fri Jun 29 02:24:50 EDT 2012 John Coyle wrote: I did use it once, but it was painfully slow! John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -Original Message- From: pdml-bounces at pdml.net [mailto:pdml-bounces at pdml.net] On Behalf Of Igor Roshchin Sent: Friday, 2

RE: tethering Pentax DSLRs?

2012-06-28 Thread John Coyle
I did use it once, but it was painfully slow! John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Igor Roshchin Sent: Friday, 29 June 2012 7:16 AM To: PDML@pdml.net Subject: tethering Pentax DSLRs? Hello all! I

Re: tethering Pentax DSLRs?

2012-06-28 Thread Bruce Walker
Yes, Lr and Ps watch-folders do work. If wireless file transfer was closer to real-time (rather than completely unreal-time that it is), I'd even use them. But I only want to transfer ultra-low-rez JPEGs for viewing and then later discard them, so I don't want them leaking into my workflow anywher

Re: tethering Pentax DSLRs?

2012-06-28 Thread Igor Roshchin
Great article, Bruce! Thank you! I might consider that option. One question, - if you know the answer: The description of the "Pro" version of the card says: "Wireless RAW File Uploads: Edit Like a Pro The Eye-Fi Pro X2 not only wirelessly uploads JPEGs, but also RAW files. Whether you're a pr

Re: tethering Pentax DSLRs?

2012-06-28 Thread Bruce Walker
Igor, I wrote a blog article on using the Eye-Fi card to tether ... http://blog.brucemwalker.com/2012/02/wireless-tethering-simplified-and-cheap.html On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > > > Hello all! > > I was considering a possibility of tethered shooting with a Pentax D

Re: tethering Pentax DSLRs?

2012-06-28 Thread P. J. Alling
There was a tethering program from Pentax for the K10/20D I have it installed on my laptop. It probably doesn't work with the K7 or K5 however. On 6/28/2012 5:16 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: Hello all! I was considering a possibility of tethered shooting with a Pentax DSLR. >From what I found, i