Sounds like you played with a digital camera once, Scott. By the way, my Oly requires about that much work after a battery change. Olympus fixed that problem free under warranty (the capacitive devices that is supposed to maintain power during a battery change were defective), but I bought mine used and they would not even reply to my inquiry about fixing it.
-- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- Scott Loveless wrote: > On 8/16/06, Collin R Brendemuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ooo Ooo Ooo ... >> Teacher, teacher ... >> I know, I know .... >> >> It's big enough to be held with both hands, one on each side! > > No, no, that's not right. It's the door for the SD card. It's > multilayered and requires two keys to beinserted simultaneously while > pushing the shutter release and looking through the viewfinder for a > retina scan. This guarantees that you can't change the card in less > than three minutes. Once you do swap out the card you have to power > the camera off, remove the lens, put it back on, power up the camera, > and then push up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-B-A-start. If you > don't, the meter won't work. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

