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Forum: Pentax K-S1 & K-S2
01-19-2016, 08:41 AM
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Image Sync is disappointingly buggy when you look at all the reported installations that don't work. And then nothing for Windows? For tablets, perhaps, or PC wireless downloads or studio work?
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Forum: Pentax K-S1 & K-S2
01-12-2016, 09:44 AM
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@Pentagor: You can buy decent used Android phones on eBay or $20 or so. There are many phones in the price range, if you are searching by price, that are damaged or not working. But the gems are in there. Make sure it has the battery and back plate, many don't. And charger if you don't have one for the connection type.
I'm hoping against hope that with the OneDrive app installed into the Android, I might get some auto-transfer. We'll see.
(I use Windows Phone. Like every brand, some disadvantages. But after LIve Tiles, for one example, I could never go back to Dead Icons.)
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Forum: Pentax K-S1 & K-S2
01-11-2016, 05:06 AM
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Thanks for those thoughts. The thing is, if one's camera/phone automatically off-loads, speed may not matter so much. Wander home, get in range, go fix dinner or a Scotch, it's done when you are. Well, maybe, of course. I'm obviously not referring to a hard day's shooting but a few dozen here or there.
I'll say that most of my photos won't deserve RAW. Of course, there are those that will, and I'm ready to do USB for them.
I don't know the RAW file size for the S2, but if it's a linear extraction from my 8mp ones, it would be about 25mb. With today's broadband and/or wifi, that's nothing.
I confess my phones with camera are my only experiences with cameras having a wifi or OTA data connection. What do other brands offer in wifi connecting? Same limited remote control? Off-loading, automatic or manual? The Pentax manual, indeed, is not real clear outside of the remote control thing. The number of photographers who might find that useful, pales, I'm sure, compared to just off-loading.
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Forum: Pentax K-S1 & K-S2
01-10-2016, 07:32 PM
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Hi, brand new to this forum. However, Brownie photographer since about 1952 and manager/curator of The Verizzo Family Photo Estate. Son and grandson of professional and military photographers. As if that matters.....
Been doing digital since ca. 2000. Immersed myself, 2mp Oly back then, then Minolta D7, A1, A2. Then eventually went back to film because it is more fun. YMMV.
Anyway, my A2 is dropping functions as time goes by. And I know that my stupid phone now takes better pictures. Better internal processing. I just bought a Pentax K-S2, not yet arrived. Two reasons I chose that upgrade, I have a LOT of Pentax and Ricoh film lenses, and after owning an A1 and A2, I ain't never not having a flip LCD. Not many options there.
Which brings me up to the wifi capabilities.....or, not. One thing I've grown to appreciate on my Windows Phone is that I can take a picture, and when I happen to wander into a wifi source that I'm pre-logged into, it uploads images to my OneDrive account, locally and in the cloud.
As I've looked at both the K-S2 manual, and this thread, It appears that Pentax doesn't get this. Oh, yeah, sure, I want to use my phone to be a remote control. Bzzzzzt.............. Admitting a level of defeat, I have bought a $20 used Android to get those basic Pentax functions. But really, I just want to be able to do what my phone does.
I'm sorry if I can't scroll up and acknowledge the poster above who has gotten some WP Pentax wifi functions. I am unable to contribute, I know nothing about programming and code. If I can help you, please ask!
K-mount since 1982............
Paul Verizzo
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