On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 12:26:21PM -0400, Christine Nielsen wrote: > > It happened at a bad time, too. We flew to North Carolina for the National > High School Outdoor Track meet this weekend... After the first 400 meters of > the 4 x 800 meter relay championship race... in which my son & his team were > competing .. The camera stopped working. I had shot a couple dozen frames at > the meet already, no problem. But, then, it just stopped. Wouldn't focus, > wouldn't shoot, no matter the on/off, in/out/switch of battery, lens switch, > shooting mode change, etc. it turns on, but when you press the shutter, it > freezes, and the LCD says "battery depleted" (though it is not). Then, it > won't do anything. That was yesterday, same story this morning.
That might have been the same thing I went through with mine when the power board died. It happened a couple of times, then once when I was on a paid gig. Fortunately, I had my K-x as a backup. > > Not sure if this is a warranty repair or not... Especially since the mirror > flop fix of last year... Will check my paperwork when I get home. Wondering > if I have reached the point of throwing good money after bad, at least on > this camera. > > Maybe you'll be hearing from me again on for sale Friday.... So, Boris and I are both sending K-5s in to CRIS for repair. One thing that we are considering is that if they both need different expensive parts, then take the best of each to make a good "frankenfive". If one of them does get parted out, and yours doesn't need the same part as the other, we might be able to all three team up for a good one. > > (For the record, my "back-up camera", the K-01, also made the trip, my > husband was shooting video with it at the time. Glad we have that, anyway.) I cannot tell you how many times I've had something go wrong at the racetrack, when I've had the spare part that I need, a couple hundred miles away at home. It just wasn't with the quarter ton of spares that I had with me at the track. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
