istD button battery cover?

2016-01-04 Thread Rick Womer
Good afternoon, My daughter's istD has lost the screw-in cover for the button battery. Does anyone have (1) the item, (2) a source for the item, or (3) an idea for a substitute? Cheers, Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/

Re: istD button battery cover?

2016-01-04 Thread Darren Addy
You might try this guy: http://mikescamera.com/pentax-camera-repair-parts.html I'm not sure what part number that actually is, but if you email him (email address on that page) he would probably know. I just checked the bottom of mine and that's a bigger cover than you usually see. Not sure what o

Re: istD button battery cover?

2016-01-04 Thread P.J. Alling
This is going to seem bad, but the *ist-D is now over 10 years old. Heck I bet that the last one manufactured was probably produced in 2004 and that production run was sold until they ran out in 2006. Last time I saw a *ist-D for sale at KEH it went for less than $90.00 in EX condition. Part

Re: istD button battery cover?

2016-01-04 Thread P.J. Alling
The *ist-D was the only Pentax DSLR with a replaceable memory maintenance battery, every later camera had a different method of maintaining long term memory, so it's the only camera that used that battery cover, unfortunately. On 1/4/2016 1:36 PM, Darren Addy wrote: You might try this guy: ht

Re: istD button battery cover?

2016-01-04 Thread David J Brooks
On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 1:53 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: > The *ist-D was the only Pentax DSLR with a replaceable memory maintenance > battery, every later camera had a different method of maintaining long term > memory, so it's the only camera that used that battery cover, unfortunately. So, that expl

Re: istD button battery cover?

2016-01-04 Thread Rick Womer
Dave, you and I were made before memory required batteries. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 2:00 PM, David J Brooks wrote: > On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 1:53 PM, P.J. Alling > wrote: >> The *ist-D was the only Pentax DSLR with a replaceable memory maintenance >> battery,

Re: istD button battery cover?

2016-01-04 Thread Mark Roberts
Rick Womer wrote: >Dave, you and I were made before memory required batteries. What? You haven't had your hardware updated? -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSU

Re: istD button battery cover?

2016-01-04 Thread David J Brooks
On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > Rick Womer wrote: > >>Dave, you and I were made before memory required batteries. > > What? You haven't had your hardware updated? still on spellin 1.0 Dave > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > --

Re: istD button battery cover?

2016-01-04 Thread Rick Womer
Neither the hardware nor the wetware. http://photo.net/photos/RickW On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 3:11 PM, David J Brooks wrote: > On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Mark Roberts > wrote: >> Rick Womer wrote: >> >>>Dave, you and I were made before memory required batteries. >> >> What? You haven't had y

Re: istD button battery cover?

2016-01-04 Thread ann sanfedele
actually, isn't that what he was in the hospital for? ann On 1/4/2016 3:02 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Rick Womer wrote: Dave, you and I were made before memory required batteries. What? You haven't had your hardware updated? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/m

Re: istD button battery cover?

2016-01-04 Thread Rick Womer
No, that was a pump malfunction. Nothing to do with the CPU. http://photo.net/photos/RickW On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 6:03 PM, ann sanfedele wrote: > actually, isn't that what he was in the hospital for? > > ann > > On 1/4/2016 3:02 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >> >> Rick Womer wrote: >> >>> Dave, you an

Re: istD button battery cover?

2016-01-04 Thread Bill
On 1/4/2016 11:50 AM, Rick Womer wrote: Good afternoon, My daughter's istD has lost the screw-in cover for the button battery. Does anyone have (1) the item, (2) a source for the item, or (3) an idea for a substitute? Cheers, Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW Send me your address offlist