Hi Al,
I had a somewhat similar experience with my recently
purchased F5. It turned out that I did not have the vertical shutter
release button locked out (bottom right side of camera) and was
pressing it by mistake.
Regards,
Mark Gose
On Monday, November 16, 1998 10:12 PM, nikon-digest
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> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 20:36:57 GMT
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Al Simcoe)
> Subject: Strange occurance!!! [3]
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> Good day to all...
>
> I am a new owner of a Nikon F5 with a Nikkor Zoom AF 35-135/F3,5-4.5
> lenz.
>
> Yesterday I had my F5 out for my first day of picture taking
> and a strange thing happened. The senario goes as follows.
>
> I had the F5 mounted on my Manfrotto Tripod using a Manfrotto
> head # 141RC with quick release. After taking a number of frames
> I went to remove the F5 from the tripod via the quick release.
>
> When the F5 and quick release plate was *partially* removed from
> the head, I heard the motar noise from the Auto Focus motar,
> refocusing my lenz. So I seated the quick release plate and F5 back on
> the head. With both eyebrowse raised I went to remove the camera
> again. At the same point, I heard the AF motar again and this time the
> F5 desided that this was a good time to take a picture (click).
>
> Running out of eyebrowse to raise I then uttered an explative ($#%$#!)
> and put the camera back on the tripod. I then ripped off 2 or 3 more
> explatives ($%#!$#) and called my friend over to observe my F5's
> strange antics. When I showed my friend what was going on, my F5 kept
> on refocusing and taking a few more frames until the F5 and quick
> release plate was *fully* removed from the tripod head. I *did*
> confirm that *nothing* was touching the shutter release button.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas as to what may be going on?
>
> Al Simcoe
>
> So Many fish, so Little time!
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