Originally posted by CaymanImaging I've seen a lot of people complaing that the K5 doesn't come with this or that software/firmware wise. I'm not speaking about hardware. They're probably in production now or soon to be, so it's too late to change physical features. But software and firmware can be changed to meet our demands as loyal customers of Pentax.
So here's what we do. Everyone on PF needs to email or call Pentax directly and voice their demands on what they want. I want tethering. That's my beef and many others too. I've emailed Pentax USA and they told me they were going to send it to Japan. Who knows if it'll get there.
I looked around and couldn't find a direct email to corporate. If someone who knows it can provide it here so we ALL can tell Pentax what we need. If they get hit with 500 people wanting tethering, we may just get it. If you don't at least try, you really shouldn't bitch about it if you don't get what you want.
All we need now is the email!!!!!
the point is, and I hope we can succeed, but I wont hold my breath
I have had a "wish list" as others have had for years, of which virtually none have been addressed.
I think the only thing on my wish list they addressed, and it was not done in the model I had at the time, but in later models was customizible file name prefixes to avoid confusion with multiple bodies.
What do I want from pentax.
1) a teleconverter option, like the focla length option to modify focal length and or apature (selectible by user) to scale them correctly for shake reduction and exposure accuracy
2) use of the user inout focal length in routines other than shake reduction. For example if you have an A lens on the camera and put it into flash mode it goes to max sync speed, but put a zoom lens on, or an FA or later lens and it defaults to 1/focal lenght
3) user programmable exposure curves for lenses. Many lenses ton't track exposure perfectly. My Tammy 28-75 has a gradual error starting out perfect at F2.8 and drifting to + 1 stop over exposed by F32. It woud be nice to program this out like you do with FF/BF. There is a member presently who has shown his FA50 under exposes by 1/2 stop wide open, so it is not just third party lenses that do this.
4) entry of maximum aperture for Manual aperture lenses., so that the green button could take an open aperture reading and a stopped down reading, and then scale p-ttl flash correctly allowing it on Manual aperture lenses.
5) Ideally, allowing body control of aperture by entry of max and min aperture and rescaling movement of the control arm for the diameter linear with movement these lenses have as opposed to area with movement ofg KA and later lenses.
these are all simple software changes, nothing special, no magic or development to them, all of which would benefit users. They have all been asked before.
we could then add some new ideas, if hardware supports it,
6) higher flash sync at reduced flash output. Maybe 1/250th but only at half power?
7) compressed RAW. I would shoot RAW if it were compressed like (god forgive me) Nokon.
8) more green button functions like meter only but not change shutter to match aperture ( again possibly to then calculate how much flash for PTTL on non A lenses_
the other thing that would be nice, is documentation.
Take the K7.
- we have 3 levels of sharpening, can any one tell me what exactly each level does, and for what radius?
- we have highlight and shadow protection detail, but no where does it say how many stops of detail it preserves. and there are 3 levels of shadow protection detail, some, more and, a lot for lack of better explanation.
- what is the dynamic range with respect to contrast for the middle 80% of the histogram. I know (because I measured it on my *istD) that it is 4 stops at max contrast and 5 stops at min contrast, but it would be nice if it were properly documented so we would know the real measurable impact of making these changes instead of guessing.
this is all simple to do. OK pentax go do it