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K30 with hacked K50 firmware works!

Started Jan 8, 2018 | Discussions thread
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Oiche Senior Member • Posts: 2,045
K30 with hacked K50 firmware works!
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I seen this on a certain Pentax website. A hacked version of the K50 V1.10 software and it doesn't brick the camera.

Advantages are use of KAF4 lenses like the 55-300mm PLM motor lens (although I don't have it), apparently better AF performance in LiveView, the ability to rename the IMPG file prefix to something more practical and a general speeding up of operation (in my short testing of the firmware this definitely seems to make the K30 more zippy).

Oh and the ability to use an Eye-Fi memory card (I don't have one of these but I imagine if I could transmit the images to friends tablets etc. it may be useful).

So a few extra features and extra performance from the great little K30.

 Oiche's gear list:Oiche's gear list
Pentax K-70 Pentax smc DA* 60-250mm F4.0 ED (IF) SDM Pentax smc DA 40mm F2.8 Limited Samyang 14mm F2.8 ED AS IF UMC HD Pentax DA 15mm F4 ED AL Limited +1 more
Pentax K-30 Pentax K-50
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