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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 01-28-2013, 11:00 PM  
How to deactivate SDM and allow for screw drive autofocus with DA* 16-50mm f/2.8
Posted By khanb31
Replies: 870
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And....the story finally ends. My SDM lens now works flawlessly with the screw drive motor!!!!! BOOO yahhhh grandma!

Thanks so much guys!!! The Txt file extension was certainly the problem. When I was saving the lens file, it initially saved it as a txt file. After noticing the difference in the icons, it was indeed not the same. I hate it when things like that happen. I spent so much time trying to get that to work. I am quite the patient man....and I almost lost my cool last night. Whew....Thanks gents.

Now that ive got good glass and autofocus, I can really start pumping out the photos.

Case Closed. High Five...

:D
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 01-28-2013, 10:06 PM  
How to deactivate SDM and allow for screw drive autofocus with DA* 16-50mm f/2.8
Posted By khanb31
Replies: 870
Views: 274,929
ZOMG!!!!!:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

SUCCESS!!! :D:D THANKS!!!

What on earth did you do different? Should I have used notepad++ ? I have another SD card with the EXACT same code in it and it WOULD NOT work!!

Flabbergasted........But much appreciated. Now lets see if I can get this SDM motor problem fixed.
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 01-28-2013, 07:40 PM  
How to deactivate SDM and allow for screw drive autofocus with DA* 16-50mm f/2.8
Posted By khanb31
Replies: 870
Views: 274,929
Well, Ive tried everything you guys have suggested....all the way from directly verbatim to trying alterations on every little nuance. None of them worked. Still, I can only get any response from the system when its hooked up to PKTether. No SD card text files are having any affect on this camera. Am I using the wrong text file? I just used the standard text document on my windows OS.

Could someone please take a video of them doing this operation? I want to know where the break in my process is occurring. I cant find any video's on youtube documenting this process.

Thanks for all this guys....Im open to any and all suggestions.
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 01-27-2013, 09:16 PM  
How to deactivate SDM and allow for screw drive autofocus with DA* 16-50mm f/2.8
Posted By khanb31
Replies: 870
Views: 274,929
Such Quick responses! Thankyou all very much for joining in.

@MegaPower/Milesy: Alright, so lets try this from scratch. Take out battery, wait 10 seconds. Upload the file shown below to the SDcard after it is formatted. Then, upload the txt file and remove hardware. Input card into the K7 with door open, then the battery. Holding down menu button and then turning the camera ON. After a few seconds, the screen and camera effectively turn OFF and it makes a small tweeting sound.

Is that how its supposed to go?
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion 01-27-2013, 04:52 PM  
How to deactivate SDM and allow for screw drive autofocus with DA* 16-50mm f/2.8
Posted By khanb31
Replies: 870
Views: 274,929
Oh how I love my Pentax, but this is the FIRST time Ive come down with a bout of frustration at it. Maybe someone can help me out?

I cannot for the life of me get my K7 into the debug menu. I have messed with this thing for over 7 hours trying to get it to show me some kind of debug menu and it just will not happen. So, to the forums I go. Im uploading a video onto youtube at the moment to show my process and my results. Ill post the link when its done.

Basically, multiple SD cards with any text file (with any line of suggested code in it) have no effect whatsoever on the functions of the camera. The only thing that I can accomplish is getting the camera into Debug mode through PKTether. After that, Not a single thing I have done in any sequence has provided any change to any Debug related function. The SD card with any/every line of code in it will not effect the debug mode of the camera. I cannot get it into debug mode with a text file and I cannot accomplish anything with a text file after PKTether has put the camera into Debug mode. I have done everything I can think of in THREE different firmware versions for my K7 and using three different SD cards. I have never seen a debug menu on my camera and im starting to get to my wits end over here.

What the heck am I doing wrong?!?!?

Thanks,

Jim
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