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Old 26-06-2008, 04:43 PM
TrevorW
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Trevor

I have the Pentax *ist DS and I believe that Pentax Remote Assistant (PRA) was designed and released for the earlier (semi-pro?) Pentax *ist D, not the (consumer) *ist DS.

I did download PRA and it worked on my *ist DS but after a couple of firmware updates, it ceased to work – it appears that Pentax crippled it for their consumer range of DSLRs.

However, I had the previous Firmware (2.0 IIRC) so I re-loaded that and PRA worked again.

Cheers

Dennis
It appears Pentax are only supporting certain DSLR cameras with remote assistant. I'm loathe to change the firmware

I'm not happy as I brought the camera with the impression it had this option.

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