Just heard from Pentax Canada regarding my 'banding' problem.
Pentax Japan has not seen the problem before but thought
that there might be a hardware QA problem with a batch of
*ist-DS's, possibly related to poorly soldered connections.
They offered me a replacement. However since I've not seen a
Since the first report I've been doing a little research.
By far the most common reports of "banding", in several
makes of camera, come from people using the cheap MagicStor
2.2GB microdrives (which are also battery killers, and
somewhat prone to burnout).
So it looks like an electronic issue; pr
There's a new post today on the dpreview Pentax DSLR forum that
mentions banding; it shows up, for this particular case, when
shooting at high ISO in continuus exposure (machine-gun) mode.
The give-away is that the banding never shows up on the first
shot of a burst, just on later shots (when writ
On 6 Jan 2005 at 17:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> There's a new post today on the dpreview Pentax DSLR forum that
> mentions banding; it shows up, for this particular case, when
> shooting at high ISO in continuus exposure (machine-gun) mode.
> The give-away is that the banding never shows up
--- Rob Studdert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I did some tests myself when Fred first posed the
> problem which may counter
> that theory (for the *ist D ). I loaded my *ist D up
> with near discharged Ni-MH
> cells, put in my micro-drive, switched on AF, popped
> up the flash and started
I tried Wendy's technique and although there was definitely more noise
in the image, and some of it appeared to be in horizantal bands, it was
of a different appearance to my original problem.
I tried it in single shot mode and 'machine gun'.
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