I had this happen, but I traced it to a battery problem. The set in the
battery pack was still good, but the batteries in the camera were on
their last legs. Since then I make sure all my batteries are equally
discharged, and I remove them at the first sign of quirky behavior or
after 2000 shots with lithiums or 900 with nimh. I haven't had any
problems since.
On May 24, 2005, at 11:13 PM, Cesar wrote:
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
