Well, with the SDK, you can build your own gimbal and control the camera's shutter... which I guess is the point of releasing the SDK in the first place - let u

Well, with the SDK, you can build your own gimbal and control the camera's shutter... which I guess is the point of releasing the SDK in the first place - let users make neat stuff that Pentax won't/can't make itself. I'm not too sure about zoom though. Unless the lens is a power zoom that's controllable from the body, you'd probably be better off making your own mechanism to control the zoom.