RiceHigh's Pentax Blog: K-r Firmware 1.01 Mysteriously Pulled Away from Pentax' Official Support Page! :-o

Monday, February 14, 2011

K-r Firmware 1.01 Mysteriously Pulled Away from Pentax' Official Support Page! :-o

It is not there anymore! The K-r firmware version 1.01 has been pull away secretly and silently by Pentax at their Japan support homepage for international users. But there is yet another new firmware update nor any kind of notice overthere! See the page screen capture below:-

So, what has happened? What's going on?? Did Pentax/Hoya actually read this Blog and suddenly discovered that something have gone very wrong with the latest firmware? ;->

Even if this is really the case, should they tell us?! (..at least something, I think, before they acted! >:-|)

Acknowledgement: My thanks to Blog reader "Lurker" for notifying me about this incident.

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rikkoamachi · 736 weeks ago

HA ! i do really hope they read this blog and build a better firmware for the sake of this religion.
and distribute the effing kr battery adapter too to my country.. gosh!.. this brand really ticks my patience.. goossh frabaa

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RiceHigh 110p · 736 weeks ago

Yes, I purchased my battery adaptor directly from Japan. The adaptor is on sales in Hong Kong too, nonetheless. But there is only one to two shops in the whole territory that carry it and the sell prices are dearer.

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Ivo · 736 weeks ago

Hehehe :)

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Lurker · 736 weeks ago

Thanks for the acknowledgement RH, but it had been pulled out before your blog entry. Secrecy or not, official acknowledgement or not, I really hope they are fixing this somehow.

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RiceHigh 110p · 736 weeks ago

Even before my this post? http://ricehigh.blogspot.com/2011/01/k-r-af-point...

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Lurker · 736 weeks ago

No. I think it was removed around a week ago, if I'm not mistaken.

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Zebooka · 736 weeks ago

The direct link is still working.
http://www.pentax.jp/english/support/digital/k-r_...

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RiceHigh 110p · 736 weeks ago

So, this proves again that the download was available before and the deletion is intentional.

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Lurker · 736 weeks ago

It might be a mistake on their web master's part. But it's still listed in the news section in the front page. When you click on it, the page is not found though.

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Japanese · 736 weeks ago

Ver. 1.01 is still available in Japanese Pentax support pages.
http://www.pentax.jp/japan/support/download/digit...

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Lurker · 736 weeks ago

Maybe there isn't any tungsten light anymore in Japan that it didn't matter if the Japanese updated their firmware :D.

Ok, I'm just joking here.

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RiceHigh 110p · 736 weeks ago

IIRC, the K-r 1.01 firmware could be found at the English page before. So, the deletion should be intentional, but not accidental.

Maybe they are now uploading a revised revision of the 1.01 for the Japanese K-r users to download for more testing, before they are to re-upload the new firmware again to the international page.