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
>
>
