When I have had it happen, I have put fresh batteries in with no change.
This is why I got the backup *ist D.
Wondering if I should send it in if it is intermittent,
C�sar
Panama City, Florida
Eriksson Paulus wrote:
This lock-up was happening to my ist-D as well. Around the tenth time it
locked-up for good and I had to send it in for repairs. It was the motherboard
that flaked out on me and it cost me something like $300.
Paul Eriksson
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Fr�n: Cesar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Skickat: den 25 maj 2005 05:13
Till: [email protected]
�mne: Re: 13 Days with Pentax
Kevin,
I will be interested what they tell you about the faulty camera. My
original *ist D has done this on two occasions. It has worked well
since the last time. The last removal of the battery that worked was
for more than a day.
C�sar
Panama City, Florida
Kevin Waterson wrote:
Just re-subscribed after a 13 Day photo shoot of Dance.
The Dance was an Eisteddfod of dance with a mix of Ballet,
tap, jazz, cultural, contemporary and others.
My job was to capture each act digitally for sale during
the Eisteddfod.
Equipment
2 x *istD
1 x 70-200mm 2.8 Tamaron AF
1 x 50mm 1.4 Pentax AF
Store full of rechargable batteries
6 x 512 CF Cards
1 X iBook
1 x Server with 250 gig external drive
2 x terminals for public veiwing.
On setting up our computer network we discovered the wireless connection
would not work in the theatre, so we had to get some cat5 cable and run
this from the laptop to the server, about 80 meters. The set up was that
I would take the photo's in the theatre and download the CF cards down to
the server in the foyer. This worked well. This was the day before the
Day 1.
Day 1. We were not given any time to test the lighting and so the first photo
was yellow as the auto WB could not cope with the tungsten lights. A quick
switch
to tungsten manually fixed this and the photos looked good. At 2.8 I was able to
shoot at 1/350 but after a word with the lighting techs we were able to shoot
1600 ISO, 2.8, 1/750. This was great and we were off and running.
Day 2.
CF card crashed but we were able to regain all the data exept 4 files that were
corrupt. Later, it happened again and I formatted all the cards and made sure
fully charged batteries were used for each session, 3 per day, and that the
CF cards were formatted for each session. There were no more CF card problems
after this.
Day 3. The *istD locked up. I turned it on, off, shook it, yelled at it but no
response. I removed the batteries and put them back in and away it went again
with no problem until about an hour later when it happened again. Same remedy
to fix it. This was not good, so I switched to the back-up body and it lasted
well for the rest of the days till the end. The network worked like a charm and
the customers could order thier prints after viewing them on the terminals in
foyer.
The *istD that failed is now in the hands of C.R.Kennedy for repair. The other
body is still functioning normally. In all over 45,000 photos during the 13
days.
The days were 12-15 hours long and it is good to be back home with the family.
I am sorry I cannot provide samples as it is part of the contract not to put
any of the images on the net, some of the childrens sessions are very young and
in very small costumes.
In all, a successful and profitable trip. Does this make the *istD a 'Pro' level
camera?
Kind regards
Kevin
