• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Couple of HD videos created with Pentax K7

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While these HD videos were created with the more expensive K7, it is worth noting that HD video (1280x720 HD video capture at 24 fps) is also available on the more affordable sibling K-x (Amazon price for body + excellent optical quality kit lens: $521).

The two videos are the ones entitled "Uncle Jack" and "The Rider":
http://www.youtube.com/pentaxian1#p/a/u/1/LLugGgmWuaA

Videographers/filmmakers may want to keep in mind that Pentax DSLRs can take any K-mount lens back to the mid-70s and any m42 (screwmount) lens back to the beginning of time (almost) with an inexpensive adapter.

As a bonus, K-x reviewers say that it has the best high-ISO performance of any "entry level" DSLR. Some say its high-ISO outperforms its big brother K7 (to the consternation of k7 owners). Custom colors generator here: http://www.camera-pentax.jp/k-x/#/simulator/140101 (automatic sound playing warning)
 
Tested out the time lapse (interval shooting) feature a bit today.

44 shots at 20 seconds apart. Limit is 99 in the auto feature, I went down to the 2 meg size for the shots.



Seems my copy of the camera is having issues with its leveling system.
 
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