Descarga Gratuita Ricoh Pentax G800 Camera Firmware For Mac
Ricoh Imaging has released new firmware for its Pentax 645Z medium format camera and K-1 full-format DSLR. The new firmware makes the cameras compatible with the also freshly released version 2.3 of the company's IMAGE Transmitter 2 software package. The latter allows the cameras to be controlled when tethered to a PC or Mac via USB cable and after the update now offers a range of new tethered control options, including drive mode, white balance, image format, size and quality, memory card slot selection, live view magnification and focus fine adjustment in live view. As before, you can also adjust essential settings, such as aperture, shutter-speed, ISO and exposure compensation, or trigger the shutter.
Image Transmitter 2 version 2.3 as well as firmware version 1.41 for the K-1 and 1.23 for the 645Z are now available to download on the. It's funny that the new FW update doesn't address the finding that has now been confirmed that in AFc and focus priority, the K-1 will release the shutter before focus is acquired, basically ignoring focus priority and making it a shutter priority camera in continuous shooting. Then, ludicrously, the mods again locked this thread.
Seriously, mako has some serious credibility issues, but luckily, I saved the thread. The mods are really doing a nice job on the pentax forum of making the company look better than it is. Try to discuss anything constructive-critical of Pentax, like finally identifying a significant AF issue that could be fixed in FW and the Mako has been deleting numerous posts and now locked the thread about the K-1's massive AF flaw. This 'massive AF flaw' is allowing a shutter release without performing a final AF confirmation (and correction, if needed) in AF-C, like it happens in AF-S. Only if you mash the shutter release button; otherwise the camera will have time to confirm focus. Workarounds were suggested: don't mash the shutter release (wait for AF confirmation), try using the AF button for focusing.
Behavior with moving targets was.not. considered. Should the camera delay shutter release - in AF-C - until it can confirm perfect focus? I'm not sure about that.
I'd rather have AF-C reacting faster/to smaller changes in distance. There's nothing constructive about your posts, including the attacks on the moderating team. My dear DPPMetro I have to admit that I really enjoy all your posts. Honestly your childhood was probably ruined from Ricoh.this is the only explanation I can find.
I searched your camera kit and probably you don't own any Pentax cameras.if you own it's my mistake sorry again. A week ago you were so happy that Pentax was doomed once again and now you find issues that are not fixed from Ricoh.
Descarga Gratuita Ricoh Pentax G800 Camera Firmware For Mac Free
On another post I saw that Ricoh should be paying customers for their abysmal Pentax firmware updates that don't fix issues. Tell me how many of your lovely big boys gave so many more features in a one year old camera with firmware updates. Love and peace.Pentax haters assemble. By the way I have a D750 also.
As a K3 and K1 owner I have to agree, Pentax AF of any kind is a useless to me, if it wasn't for focusscreens.com, Lietax adaptors, and IBIS I certainly wouldn't own either camera. It is ridiculous entry level, crappy plastic, Nikons and Canons, are far far far more reliable, in regards to AF. Maybe if every other Pentax user in the world was perfectly happy with getting every 20th shot in focus Ricoh would fix the problem. But, then again given my experience with Ricoh US, with even basic repairs, they aren't to into fixing stuff. I'd be happy to have the camera calibrate the optical AF to the results from it's live view contrast detect AF. Heck the new K-70 has on sensor phase detect sensors too, so they should be more than sufficient to calibrate the main optical AF to. As is automating the composition adjustment feature, to take 4x photos automatically, each at a different corner of the possible SR travel limits.
Would be an awesome feature to improve the wide field of view options on my lenses. Oh, and make the focus peaking stay on the screen During video capture please, you know, when I actually need it most. And whilst we're at it, return the mechanical sensor stabilisation in video mode, that you actively took away in 2012 and have never brought back. (This 'Pentax' feature is now found on Olympus, Panasonic, Sony.). That's because they are weird people;- Not as enlightened as museum folk. We would never accept the distortions that come with forcing verticals beyond the reasonable. Of course most of our work is of smaller stuff, not some 40 plus story building.
Then there's Gehry-how would one know it's distorted? (again, smirking.). In all seriousness, though, a lot of time in interiors you can get those straight lines if you've got a good lens to begin with plus PP. I feel like T/S or shift lenses are more outdoor things, unless it's a very big interior space, like a train station.But I'll assume you know best as an architectural photographer.
It really is a pity Pentax hasn't done something here.they have the 6x7 designs! Enough circle there I would think to make a 645 T/S.
Through this acquisition, Ricoh plans to 1) enhance its digital camera businesses (especially the interchangeable lens camera market which is expected to grow), 2) create value-added businesses for taken photographs (creation and development of value-added services that encourage seeing, storing and refinishing photographs and utilize photographs as communication tools), and 3) expand to other fields (study of entry into the image archiving business using medium-format digital cameras and enhancement of security-related products). Click to expand.I'm not sure it's a good thing- on the one hand, since Hoya's CEO was pretty clear in the beginning that they wanted the endoscopy business and not the camera business it's a good thing Hoya doesn't have to keep floating Pentax unwillingly, but Ricoh has been in decline for the last two years since buying IKON, I'm not seeing anything particularly cheery on the horizon for Ricoh- especially since the encroachment of smart phones and tablets into the business market is likely to lead to less printing rather than more printing. Furthermore, they don't have a large retail sales channel. Nothing in their 2010 Annual Report strikes me as particularly advantageous to retail camera sales or R&D. At this point, one has to wonder how much talent has fled from the Pentax-Hoya-Ricoh instability. Click to expand.Their 2010 annual report doesn't read that well to me, did I miss something?
While sales appear to be about 5x Hoya's, income for 2010 was about 30% less (though admittedly Hoya's income was up about 50% for financial reasons.) Hoya had about 5x the operating margins too. Let's not forget though that Hoya's net sales are about 25% larger than Nikon's. Ricoh hasn't done particularly well in the retail arena, and there's nothing that really indicates they have a new strategy there- without the wider retail distribution channels it's going to be a hard row to hoe. Throw in a Medium Format play from someone who really doesn't have a camera store presence, and it's an uphill fight. Add in what has to have been a lot of attrition in R&D over the last acquisition and without a strong partner, I just don't see how they can make even a dent in the market with a brand that's been losing market share.
Hoya wins out here, they've been wanting to ditch the Pentax camera business since the original acquisition. It may be different in Japan, but in every US acquisition I've seen in the last 20+ years, all the talent flees at the first one except one or two high-end folks who get courted heavily- but by the second acquisition, they're ready to move on and they've already made their bonus money the first time around. I don't think Pentax has 'throw money at it' problems- there's simply not room for another major player in the DSLR market- Canon and Nikon are strong, with popular and well-performing products and Sony's offering a good third-place run- any run by Pentax would have to eat into all three's sales in relatively major ways, and Ricoh doesn't have the retail channels that those three do, and they're not likely to offer anything ground-shaking technology-wise. Ricoh wants to do online file storage- do they honestly think they're going to be a big cloud player? Since IDC doesn't seem to be splitting interchangeable lens cameras from DSLRs, we'll go with the best numbers we can for 2010: Canon 44.5 Nikon 29.8 Sony 11.9 Oly 5.1 That leaves 8.7% between Pentax, Sigma, Samsung, Leica, Panasonic and all others.
Given u4/3rd's penetration, that really doesn't give Pentax a lot of maneuvering room. Let's say that Pentax runs about 50% of the remaining share- they're not likely to pick up share from their group, so that leaves the 'big three.' There's intense competition between Canon and Nikon, especially at the entry-level price point- and they have wide sales lanes into box stores, membership warehouses and electronics retail- and they're not likely to give up shelf space willingly. I don't see it, just as I don't see how Ricoh thinks they're going to make major plays in photo editing and online storage against a pretty full house.
Even with a huge advertising budget, retail simply isn't their strong suit- going from the ground up in this economy isn't going to be easy- and let's face it, Pentax hasn't been doing well at that itself. Color me very skeptical. Click to expand.It's got a lot to do with market expectations and shareholder value- just like 'passenger seat miles' in the airline industry. In the Japanese market, it's been more about home market share than global market share, but that's a very, very important metric to Japanese companies, and in part, corporate resources are going to be allocated based upon success in the market. I suspect with the earthquake that global market share will start to take on even more prominence. In the short term, market success equals dollars for S,G&A for the division, in the longer term it equals attracting tier one talent.
Finally, the DSLR market has been growing while Pentax's share has been shrinking. That's very, very important in a business, especially a publicly traded one. That means you're not even keeping up- your products aren't being adopted by your potential customers because they're going somewhere else. Hoya could not float Pentax with its current sales- that means to be successful, Pentax is going to have to grow share- that is take food off of Canon and Nikon's tables. Actually, Apple's market share has been important, and the company's upsurge began with their major uptick in the portable market.
The fact that Google was unable to draw all the top-tier talent away has come from continued high market share in the smart phone and tablet markets- if Apple's share dropped to single-digit percentage points, you'd see the major innovators fleeing the company in droves. More importantly, when Apple's market share was in the tank, it took a significant cash infusion by Microsoft to keep them in business. Few people really want to work for number 5, 6 or 7- and that has an effect on future products too. Remember the same optimism for the camera division when Hoya purchased Pentax, despite all the evidence to the contrary? Let's revisit this in a year, but I know I wouldn't be investing in Ricoh stock over this one. Click to expand.To remain profitable, it'd have to be profitable- in 2009, Hoya was shopping for partners with the goal of making Pentax profitable.
If the business isn't solvent, then it can't do much for the customers. You can put out all the great products in the world, but if nobody buys them you can't do it for long. Retail isn't Ricoh's strength- how much stomach are they going to have if they don't have successes?
What's the board's level of commitment and how tied in is this overall editing/storage strategy? How does failure in one area affect the others?
That's where I'm not seeing the business language that says 'This is a full-on deal that's achievable by this company.'