Re: Odd K-x behaviour
On 8/26/2010 3:48 PM, Bob W wrote: yesterday, I brought up an image on the screen and handed the camera to someone else to view. From their puzzled look, something was wrong. Looking again at the screen, it was covered in vertical lines, of varying thickness, of pastel (at least, no vivid) colours, interspersed with dashed black lines one or two pixels thick. More worryingly, none of the buttons elicited a response, even the on/off switch. Just as I was beginning to seriously panic, the off switch worked (not immediately - it was left in the off position and finally worked after about three seconds) and everything returned to normal. No recurrence. So far. I feel the on/off switch on this particular specimen is likely to give trouble in the future, due to the feel of it compared to all the others I have fondled. Apart from that, I can think of no reason for what occured. Anyone else have an idea? you were probably kidnapped by aliens and subjected to a range of unspeakable breeding experiments before your memory was wiped. B Which may very well be true, but it doesn't explain the cameras behavior. -- His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. -Woody Allen -- 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.
Re: Odd K-x behaviour
2010/8/26 mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com: yesterday, I brought up an image on the screen and handed the camera to someone else to view. From their puzzled look, something was wrong. Looking again at the screen, it was covered in vertical lines, of varying thickness, of pastel (at least, no vivid) colours, interspersed with dashed black lines one or two pixels thick. More worryingly, none of the buttons elicited a response, even the on/off switch. Just as I was beginning to seriously panic, the off switch worked (not immediately - it was left in the off position and finally worked after about three seconds) and everything returned to normal. No recurrence. So far. I feel the on/off switch on this particular specimen is likely to give trouble in the future, due to the feel of it compared to all the others I have fondled. Apart from that, I can think of no reason for what occured. Anyone else have an idea? Sounds like a circuitry problem. I had that garbled image twice in a day on my pda. About 10 hours of use later it croaked. System board replacement cost was prohibitve. OTOH my Optio WP has done that numerous times w/o subsequent kroaquage so far so it may or may not be terminal but I can confirm that my WP also exhibits random freezing, sometimes at startup, sometimes during use which can only be resolved by pulling the battery. My advice is to take it back for at least a check. Cheers Ecke -- 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.
RE: Odd K-x behaviour
From: mike wilson yesterday, I brought up an image on the screen and handed the camera to someone else to view. From their puzzled look, something was wrong. Looking again at the screen, it was covered in vertical lines, of varying thickness, of pastel (at least, no vivid) colours, interspersed with dashed black lines one or two pixels thick. More worryingly, none of the buttons elicited a response, even the on/off switch. Just as I was beginning to seriously panic, the off switch worked (not immediately - it was left in the off position and finally worked after about three seconds) and everything returned to normal. No recurrence. So far. I feel the on/off switch on this particular specimen is likely to give trouble in the future, due to the feel of it compared to all the others I have fondled. Apart from that, I can think of no reason for what occured. Anyone else have an idea? The power switch may be going flaky, but I'd start by changing the batteries. -- 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.
RE: Odd K-x behaviour
yesterday, I brought up an image on the screen and handed the camera to someone else to view. From their puzzled look, something was wrong. Looking again at the screen, it was covered in vertical lines, of varying thickness, of pastel (at least, no vivid) colours, interspersed with dashed black lines one or two pixels thick. More worryingly, none of the buttons elicited a response, even the on/off switch. Just as I was beginning to seriously panic, the off switch worked (not immediately - it was left in the off position and finally worked after about three seconds) and everything returned to normal. No recurrence. So far. I feel the on/off switch on this particular specimen is likely to give trouble in the future, due to the feel of it compared to all the others I have fondled. Apart from that, I can think of no reason for what occured. Anyone else have an idea? you were probably kidnapped by aliens and subjected to a range of unspeakable breeding experiments before your memory was wiped. B -- 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.
Re: Odd K-x behaviour
2010/8/26 Bob W p...@web-options.com: I feel the on/off switch on this particular specimen is likely to give trouble in the future, due to the feel of it compared to all the others I have fondled. you were probably kidnapped by aliens and subjected to a range of unspeakable breeding experiments before your memory was wiped. Yeah, fondling those uhm... specimens must have given them ideas Cheers Ecke - Cameras don’t shoot people. Photographers shoot people. -- 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.
Re: Odd K-x behaviour
Bob W wrote: yesterday, I brought up an image on the screen and handed the camera to someone else to view. From their puzzled look, something was wrong. Looking again at the screen, it was covered in vertical lines, of varying thickness, of pastel (at least, no vivid) colours, interspersed with dashed black lines one or two pixels thick. More worryingly, none of the buttons elicited a response, even the on/off switch. Just as I was beginning to seriously panic, the off switch worked (not immediately - it was left in the off position and finally worked after about three seconds) and everything returned to normal. No recurrence. So far. I feel the on/off switch on this particular specimen is likely to give trouble in the future, due to the feel of it compared to all the others I have fondled. Apart from that, I can think of no reason for what occured. Anyone else have an idea? you were probably kidnapped by aliens and subjected to a range of unspeakable breeding experiments before your memory was wiped. If that's true, _they_ will be the ones needing memory wipe before long -- 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.
Re: Odd K-x behaviour
eckinator wrote: 2010/8/26 Bob W p...@web-options.com: I feel the on/off switch on this particular specimen is likely to give trouble in the future, due to the feel of it compared to all the others I have fondled. you were probably kidnapped by aliens and subjected to a range of unspeakable breeding experiments before your memory was wiped. Yeah, fondling those uhm... specimens must have given them ideas Leave my eyebrows out of this. -- 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.
Re: Odd K-x behaviour
On Aug 26, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Bob W wrote: I feel the on/off switch on this particular specimen is likely to give trouble in the future, due to the feel of it compared to all the others I have fondled. Apart from that, I can think of no reason for what occured. Anyone else have an idea? you were probably kidnapped by aliens and subjected to a range of unspeakable breeding experiments before your memory was wiped. Now I understand. K-x stands for Kinky - Xtraterrestrial -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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.
