Somewhere there's a film photographer doing this ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCfyOXJf3ZM
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Christine Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm with you, Rob... I experienced this the other day with my K-5... > it just wouldn't shoot. Turned off, turned on, battery out, battery > in, new battery, AF off, AF on, nothing... meanwhile, the hockey game > goes on... I grabbed the k-01, took the 60-250 off the k-5, slapped > it on (whoa), and was back in business. Sort of. Minutes later, I > tried the k-5 again, with the 21mm, and lo & behold, it's working > again. > > Later, at home, the 60-250 back on the k-5, everything seems to be > fine. I'd send it in, but these little episodes are pretty random and > infrequent, they could have the camera for weeks, trying to get it to > show symptoms... > > In the end, I wonder if it's just simply because there's a computer > inside the camera... and this is just analogous to the spinning > pinwheel of death that everyone sees on their monitor now & then...? > > It's beyond frustrating, though. Especially when shooting at sporting > events where I don't have time for that nonsense. > > :( > -c > > > > > On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Rob Studdert <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 8 April 2013 20:39, Bipin Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> That's all lovely but when I'm shooting the 5 mins of performance of >> the night that counts I want my top of the line body to just work, I >> find it incredible that Pentax delivers cameras that exhibit these >> fundamental engineering related problems. >> >> -- >> Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) >> Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours >> Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
