Re: Aaargghh!! More stupid K-5 tricks

2011-11-19 Thread Rick Womer
http://photo.net/photos/RickW - Original Message - From: John Francis To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Cc: Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 1:14 PM Subject: Re: Aaargghh!! More stupid K-5 tricks I think Larry must be one of these guys that emit invisible fields that affect cameras (or

Re: Aaargghh!! More stupid K-5 tricks

2011-11-19 Thread John Francis
I think Larry must be one of these guys that emit invisible fields that affect cameras (or make digital watches run slow). To my recollection he's had problems with his K20D, an AF540, and the K-5 (and that doesn't count damage from dropping any other camera). That's definitely more than one per

Re: Aaargghh!! More stupid K-5 tricks

2011-11-19 Thread William Robb
On 19/11/2011 12:22 AM, Larry Colen wrote: This happened to me a couple of months ago when I was photographing a friend's birthday party. Tonight, I was photographing belt tests at the dojo. After the stupid camera tricks during belt tests two nights ago, I made sure that all of my batteries w

Re: Aaargghh!! More stupid K-5 tricks

2011-11-19 Thread Larry Colen
On Nov 19, 2011, at 3:26 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > Send it to Pentax repair. Sounds like an intermittent short, since it > generated heat and drained the battery. That's the thing, it didn't drain the battery. Once things cooled down (literally or figuratively) it worked fine, with any of t

Re: Aaargghh!! More stupid K-5 tricks

2011-11-19 Thread Paul Stenquist
Send it to Pentax repair. Sounds like an intermittent short, since it generated heat and drained the battery. Paul On Nov 19, 2011, at 1:22 AM, Larry Colen wrote: > This happened to me a couple of months ago when I was photographing a > friend's birthday party. > > Tonight, I was photographing

Aaargghh!! More stupid K-5 tricks

2011-11-18 Thread Larry Colen
This happened to me a couple of months ago when I was photographing a friend's birthday party. Tonight, I was photographing belt tests at the dojo. After the stupid camera tricks during belt tests two nights ago, I made sure that all of my batteries were well charged, and that the Pentax brand