Originally posted by normhead The Oregon isn't my first GPS. My first GPS the original yellow Garmin didn't even have a mapping function, I had to correlate with Topo maps to see where I was.. Why do you even care about when I did what and when. Find someone else to harass.
Then why not say that instead of implying that you were using a 2010 device in 2006-07 - which was my point.
Originally posted by normhead And you think I don't know that? What is this a mini-lecture. A long diatribe of things I already know?
It was a simple comment.
As was the comment I made to which you replied. If telling you that you need to be a bit clearer is a "lecture" then so be it. Now, calm down.
Originally posted by normhead You should have said this in the first place.
The GPS system I had that attached to my PDA required a 12v adapter in order to run. I carried a solar array to power it when I was getting positions and elevations for specific places while in NZ. The maps part of the system ran on my PC, left at home, and only covered The US. No topo maps. I still have the original software and the GPS antenna, but the iPAQ is pretty seriously dead. The solar array is sitting in my window and periodically I charge my phone with it. Just because I can.
Originally posted by normhead I don't care what you will or won't do. Just saying, if GPS is necessary you can do it other ways besides having built in. For some if they aren't carrying the GPS they might have to carry a flash. There's more than one way to do it.
And why won't you carry a GPS?
Ah - a direct question. After my iPAQ I bought a HP PDA that had a default installation of the Tom-Tom GPS. I found that carrying a separate GPS was really not as convenient as I thought it would be. I never tried a Garmin device. The HP PDA did not provide tracking so it was useless as a means of associating locations with time. Heck, even the K-3 II will create a GPS track, but it eats the battery and my old Solar Array will not recharge its batteries. Bummer.
I do carry a GPS, in my phone, but that also has the disadvantage of not providing a track. I do not spend any time out in the boonies anymore so the requirement for a GPS to provide my location is really not a necessity. Having just gotten back from my Yellowstone vacation where there was no Wi-Fi or Cell coverage having a GPS independent of the phone would have been nice. I do have a app on my phone that will allow me to download maps for use off-line but I forgot to set it up for Wyoming/Montana. We would have used it only for one day, so no big deal.
Originally posted by normhead You just clip it on your day pack with the supplied beener and forget it until you get home. In our case, with lots of travel through unfamiliar wilderness, we take a GPS and track all our major trips anyway, so it's already there. That saves a lot of camera battery on your wilderness trips.
In my experience there are many occasions where a separate GPS is essential or preferential.
Now what were you going on about again? Did someone piss in your cornflakes?
So, you bought a device that fits your needs, so did I. And depending on the feature set of the new body, when my K-3 II no longer fits my needs or just dies, then the new body might work. But, as with my K-3 II built in GPS is a requirement on my part. Oh - I do not eat cornflakes.
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Originally posted by monochrome You are posting unfounded accusations of feature removals on the basis of Pentax having removed a hard button and LED. These comments are indexed on the Internet for all to find and see. I strongly repeat - unfounded accusations.
I suggest you stop posting unfounded accusations.
If you don’t care and won’t buy the camera then why the disinformation campaign of unfounded disparagement? Who is paying you?
Occam’s Razor. GPS is most likely enabled with a soft button, just as WiFi and all the other functions formerly on the Control Dial likely are. Your stubborn insistence that a hard button is required to enable GPS suggests active animus against the brand.
Then stop posting disinformation about a camera you don’t know anything about, don’t want and won’t buy.
Dude, relax. Next year it will all come clear when Ricoh/Pentax release specifics.
"GPS is most likely enabled with a soft button, just as WiFi and all the other functions formerly on the Control Dial likely are." So your speculation of is not damaging to the brand. Making misleading statements about "hidden" features? Where are your links?
As for "animus against the brand", that is just your incorrect assumption. For the record, all of my DSLR's have been Pentax's and there is no other brand out there that has the feature set of my K-3 II. There are some things I would like to see improved, but in the course of things they are pretty trivial. I am not looking to switch brands. I hope that new body starts with the K-3 II feature set as a baseline and shows improvement from there. I would be more than pleased if the new body has a beer bottle opener.