When u say I upgrade blindly w/o knowing what to do..., perhaps u notice something that I overlooked ...maybe I missed ver 1.01. and go straight to 1.02.
Maybe you are more structurally and carefull take no risk person. knowledge b4 action..
but I am a risk taker and impatient breed.
I notice that that there are upgrade for K100D. The latest was Version 1.2
1. I check that my version was 1.00
since the web say u need to insert at least 8 GB HC to do the upgrade.
2.follow full instruction ...but my version was version 1.oo, so I bought a 8 gb card (because I was the key wedding photographer the day before the Pentax meetup...I afraid I may run out of SD memory for full-day .... (I do not know, if I do thing blindly upgrade software..I bought a class6 8SG HC cards.) skipping the nitty gritting...details ...
3. But following full-instrcution didn't work.... I seek help on this forum...(I need to prepare my equipment for next day wedding shoot that was on the 21 Jun 2008, no response in the earlier minutes of my post I called up FengWei out of urgency, see suggest using a different card ...since I only had one 8gb sd hc card that i just bought and the rest was from 215 mb cards.
4. In fact the instruction given ... is not exacting accurate .. when they say u need to use a min 8gd cards...to do the upgrade ... u can upgrade to version v1.02 t from v.1.00 with a 215mb SD...card.
and when I post Pentax issues, others would also save the problems and learn to solves it from this forum..
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I have been with Pentax since the first K100D was out before K10D...
In fact I when to shoot the wedding blindly also, without knowing what to expect ...but it last call from a friend who endorse their trust on u... but I want to take up the challenge with a rookie K100D ...and I have no assistant. If I live in my safe comfort zone, I would never be able to explore new possibilities. Of course ... imagine ... u had to take photos of every tables ...This was my first time. But I think I was crazy...at times. Myabe I am bored.
That is my weakness, and also my strength ...igonrant of my weakness. Called that foolishness or arrogance and I may not be wise in being fully comprehensive of software development and upgrade ...
Thanks for your advice ..I am still learning from many Pentaxian like u who provide suggestions ...everytime I got insight form this forum.