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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
09-20-2017, 01:00 PM
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I think you can do the same with K-1, but this is at the time of capturing a photo i.e. RAW+ or JPG as choice, are these settings also applicable at time of conversion when choosing RAW>JPG? I would check but it's very early morning here and not much light and I'm busy to attending to emails and other items currently, but plan to test later on today.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
09-20-2017, 12:36 PM
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Yeh, I was thinking that I'll have to do some of the PP in camera before setting for wifi transfer. With the K-1 (or other Pentax's) is there an option to generate a more compressed jpg? I don't recall this being an option on my K-50, I seem to recall it was just RAW>JPG and crop tool, be nice if I could shrink the file size down to being smaller and therefore quicker to transfer over wifi but losing nothing when it comes to posting on Instagram. I'll have to experiment later with my K-1, see if I can find a way.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
09-19-2017, 10:40 PM
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Well here's my thought.
In all the times I've used my K-50 or K-1 I shoot RAW, because 90% of the times I will want to visit LR and do some proper processing. However, there have been times that I've used my camera (K-50 more than K-1) to wifi send a picture to my smartphone so that I might upload it to Instagram pr Facebook, it was more of a 'time is of the essence' capture rather than a pixel peeping high res admiration flickr kinda affair.
When wanting to do this, the process was slightly painful, as I'm sure you are aware you need to convert to Jpg first (that is if like me you shoot RAW exclusively (and don't want RAW+ for space saving reasons).
You also then have to consider that the Jpg conversion is probably quite a bit of overkill for Instagram. I'm not sure what size is optimal for Instagram, I think a couple years back 1000x1000 was the recommended thing, but nowadays you can add 4:3 aspect ratio and wider to Instagram... so I'm not sure what the res is capped at.
Perhaps you can see where I am going with this, whether it is possible to have a 'Instagram' mode in your app. Here's how I would hope it could work...
1) you turn app on and connect via wifi to the camera
2) on the phone you browse the RAW files, select the file/s you want
3) you then select to transfer these files but select 'Instagram'
What this does is convert the RAW>JPG at the optimal size/compression so that the file is smaller than it needs to be and hence faster to transfer and is now ready for Instagram.
Perhaps the user can do this in the camera, convert RAW to Jpg and specify the size that would be acceptable to Instagramming, but I'm lazy and just think it would be cool if the app did it all :D
FWIW I find Instagram to do a pretty good job of PP editing, there are quite a lot of options and choices and even the filter presets are not bad. But yeh basically when wirelessly transfering JPGs off my K-50 or K-1 to the phone it's always been for Instagram or Facebook use.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
09-19-2017, 08:04 PM
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Hey, interesting pic, can you explain a little more what's going on in that set up?
I have a K-1 and Image Sync and a very high res Android tablet S2tab. When i have used the Image Sync app with it I found that it doesn't 'scale up' what you're seeing on the tablet, it's just the LCD blown up, therefore I can't take advantage of any extra pixels to see whether my shots were good or not. Essentially I'd have to send/transfer the the jpg across to the tablet and then have a look and then make adjustments etc, basically takes too long.
But here you have yer tablet connected via a cable to the K-1, are you actually able to use the tablet as a Live View via cable, lag free and or with higher resolution? Can you preview your shots in higher res?
Oh, and for the App Developer, I have a feature request, is it best to PM you or just add it here?
Cheers,
Bruce
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
09-18-2017, 09:50 PM
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Excellent. So is this app more just transfer rather than remote operation of the camera? I think even if it's just a superior wifi transfer kinda thing that in itself is worthwhile, I find the Image Sync to being a little clunkier to navigate, look forward to trying this out! :D
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