Try the higher voltage lithium batteries like the ones that came with the camera. Are you running it with a micro-drive CF card, or solid state? That can also drain the batteries faster. Using the flash can do the same thing.

rg


Tan and Steve wrote:
Hi guys and gals,

Just home from a wedding today in Byron Bay.  Got some great stuff on the
beach - great light and a beautiful sunset, but, EEK! midway through the
day, my new *ist D (I have two now), started doing some strange things.
Just on a whim, I turned on the preview screen to have a quick flick through
what I'd been shooting, only to find a whole lot of black screens with
nothing but red and blue lines running horizontally through them!  They all
had appropriate file numbers but no image!  I "lost" about 20 shots, which
luckily due to circumstances were able to be "re-shot".  Anyways, it
progressively got worse throughout the day, sometimes with 6 or 7 shots in a
row doing it.  I changed the batteries, and the lenses, thinking it may be
either of these, but it still did it.  I then found that if I shot only
single frames, and let the camera sit for a few seconds between frames, it
seemed to not do it.  This completely sucks though, as my shooting style at
weddings is candid, and quick, often shooting four or five frames at a time
in quick succession.

Any ideas what it could be, or am I going to have to send it in for
warranty?   aaaargh, I have a really busy period coming up - I can't be
without both bodies!!

Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions!

tan. :)

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