Me three. K100Ds and K20D never exhibited this freeze-up. I'd be really pissed.
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Kenneth Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > Me too! I've never had anything of the kind with an ist D, K10D or K 20D. > > > -----Original Message----- >>From: "J.C. O'Connell" <[email protected]> >>Subject: RE: K-5 IIs locks up - did the recent firmware updates fix it? >> >>Ive never had any of these type episodes with my istDS in 7 years. I use >>NIMH batteries and the camera just goes dead until I put in a newly charged >>set. >> >>----------------- >>J.C.O'Connell >>[email protected] >>----------------- >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christine Nielsen >>Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 9:34 AM >>To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>Subject: Re: K-5 IIs locks up - did the recent firmware updates fix it? >> >>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. -- -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.
