I would try a different, fully charged battery, and if that doesn't work, tell them you want a new camera. Immediately. I'm sure some Pentax folk will see your message here. Paul On Sep 14, 2007, at 9:19 PM, skye pdml wrote:
> here you go - thought you guys would like to read an email I sent off > tonight to Phil Kerswill who's a manager in the Product Support Dept. > (BTW I've been giving Phil a hard time for hanging onto my camera for > 6 weeks, so you'll have to read around the sarcasm a little bit) > > > Dear Phil, > > Please contact me at your earliest convenience and walk me through > what I need to do in order to get a working k10D out of Pentax. I hope > I do not need to add that I don't wish to wait another 6 weeks for > this miracle to happen. > > My K10D was delivered into my hands today (Friday) and I consider it > now to be in worse shape than it was when I mailed it to you 6 weeks > ago. > > When I mailed it to you 6 weeks ago, the body was in perfect working > order, except for the flash which was in 100% non-working condition. > > When I plugged the battery back in tonight, it was in JPG mode so I > switched back to DNG mode, turned off the beep, and exited the menu. > "That's odd," I said to myself, "it says RAW+ on the top display." I > turned the menu back on but it said "raw dng" and when I looked at the > top display it said "RAW." I thought I was imagining things. I took a > few photos. I deleted the photos. > > I switched off the camera. The top display showed the number of frames > left. That's weird, it's never done that before. I switched it on. The > battery display appeared and the number of frames disappeared. The > shutter release would not work. I finally pulled out the battery and > put it back in. Everything reset itself back to beeping and JPG mode. > I reset the camera to DNG and non-beeping mode. I looked at the top > display. It reported "RAW+" again and a smaller number of frames > number. I shook the camera. It beeped and went back to displaying RAW > and a larger number of frames. I turned the camera off, cautiously. > The top display went blank (as it's supposed to). > > Words cannot adequately express to you how I feel - suffice it to say > that I actually went and checked my receipt to make sure you had > returned the correct camera. Pentax has taken my camera which was > reliably working except for the flash which was dependably not > working, and it has turned it into a camera which might or might not > work at any given moment. > > That's just... great. > > --skye > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
