This problem has been brought up before. I finally saw it on my D about 2 weeks ago. Started getting banding at high ISO's, it got worse and worse and finally started giving totally blank frames on ocassion. Just about ready to declare the camera dead until it indicated low battery. Put in fresh Lithiums and Presto!, all the problems went away. These D's seem to get real squirrely when the batteries are nearing death! The old cells were down to 1.42 volts, apparently that's the magic number for 'squirrely-ness' on my particular D! ;-)
Don > -----Original Message----- > From: Gianfranco Irlanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 9:42 AM > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Subject: *ist D problem at ISO 1600? > > > Hi everybody, > > I guess the wise people of the *istderhood can enlighten me > about an issue regarding the low light behaviour of the D. > When shooting at 1600 (with noise reduction turned off) every > now and then the pictures show a cartain amount of "striping", > visible in the dark (or evenly lit) areas. There is no real > pattern, just a certain amount of stripes (lighter and darker > alternating) on a single shot, sometimes on two/three > consecutive ones. This seems to happen at every speed 8ranging > from 1/30 to 1/6) with no significant difference. > Looking at Luigi's concert pictures > (http://www.livejournal.com/users/ouij/) it seems, to me at > least, to be an issue present in his DS too (I may be perfectly > wrong, though...) > Would you *istD users care to experiment a bit and let me know > before I ask Tecno2000, the official assistance in Italy, to > check my camera? > Thanks in advance. > > Ciao, > > Gianfranco > > PS: I'll show you in 1/2 hour what you should (or should not...) > see, I have to dig out the right files. > > > > ===== > _ > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo >
