This lock-up was happening to my ist-D as well. Around the tenth time it locked-up for good and I had to send it in for repairs. It was the motherboard that flaked out on me and it cost me something like $300.
Paul Eriksson -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: Cesar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skickat: den 25 maj 2005 05:13 Till: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Ämne: Re: 13 Days with Pentax Kevin, I will be interested what they tell you about the faulty camera. My original *ist D has done this on two occasions. It has worked well since the last time. The last removal of the battery that worked was for more than a day. César Panama City, Florida Kevin Waterson wrote: >Just re-subscribed after a 13 Day photo shoot of Dance. >The Dance was an Eisteddfod of dance with a mix of Ballet, >tap, jazz, cultural, contemporary and others. >My job was to capture each act digitally for sale during >the Eisteddfod. > >Equipment >2 x *istD >1 x 70-200mm 2.8 Tamaron AF >1 x 50mm 1.4 Pentax AF >Store full of rechargable batteries >6 x 512 CF Cards >1 X iBook >1 x Server with 250 gig external drive >2 x terminals for public veiwing. > >On setting up our computer network we discovered the wireless connection >would not work in the theatre, so we had to get some cat5 cable and run >this from the laptop to the server, about 80 meters. The set up was that >I would take the photo's in the theatre and download the CF cards down to >the server in the foyer. This worked well. This was the day before the >Day 1. > >Day 1. We were not given any time to test the lighting and so the first photo >was yellow as the auto WB could not cope with the tungsten lights. A quick >switch >to tungsten manually fixed this and the photos looked good. At 2.8 I was able >to >shoot at 1/350 but after a word with the lighting techs we were able to shoot >1600 ISO, 2.8, 1/750. This was great and we were off and running. > >Day 2. >CF card crashed but we were able to regain all the data exept 4 files that were >corrupt. Later, it happened again and I formatted all the cards and made sure >fully charged batteries were used for each session, 3 per day, and that the >CF cards were formatted for each session. There were no more CF card problems >after this. > >Day 3. The *istD locked up. I turned it on, off, shook it, yelled at it but no >response. I removed the batteries and put them back in and away it went again >with no problem until about an hour later when it happened again. Same remedy >to fix it. This was not good, so I switched to the back-up body and it lasted >well for the rest of the days till the end. The network worked like a charm and >the customers could order thier prints after viewing them on the terminals in >foyer. > >The *istD that failed is now in the hands of C.R.Kennedy for repair. The other >body is still functioning normally. In all over 45,000 photos during the 13 >days. >The days were 12-15 hours long and it is good to be back home with the family. >I am sorry I cannot provide samples as it is part of the contract not to put >any of the images on the net, some of the childrens sessions are very young and >in very small costumes. > >In all, a successful and profitable trip. Does this make the *istD a 'Pro' >level >camera? > >Kind regards >Kevin > >
