Also, you might want to try lithium disposables for a while and see if
the *ist D still has the same problems. As well, what milli-amp hour
rating are your NiMHs? If they're old and < 2000 mAh, you might want to
try some of the 2200 mAh batteries. Longer life might at least keep the
problem from cropping up...
Jordan R. Urie wrote:
How does NiMH AA power output decay? Is it a steady, slow drop, like on
alkalines, or are they solid right until the end, and then die, like
lithium disposables? I use NiMH myself, but it's just in a small P&S
digicam, and I never use it enough to drain them completely.
If the power output slowly drops, it could be that there isn't quite
enough voltage/amperage/whatever, and the camera is experiencing some
kind of brown-out state.
With my desktop computer, I had a powersupply that wasn't putting out
enough, and the brownout that my motherboard was putting up with caused
weird hardware faults; replacing it solved the answer.
It could be something similar with the *ist D, where the electronics
aren't getting quite enough power, and perhaps the software/firmware
isn't sensitive enough to realize? That'd probably be something they
could fix with a firmware update, but it'd sure be a pisser in the
meantime...
Of course, I could be way off target; this is just idle speculation.
Jordan R. Urie
Peter Loveday wrote:
Is it just me, or does everyone's *istD behave really erratically when
the batteries are "low". By low, I don't necessarily mean it says
they're low, sometimes half-bar, or sometimes even full and it behaves
oddly. But swapping them fixes it.
Symptoms vary from not auto focusing, weird second shutter fire
several seconds after taking a frame, not showing aperture... no
selection of AF point.. but the menus work fine, and it takes pictures
fine. Seems really odd, and I'd say it was faulty, except new
batteries fix it every time.
This is using NiMH AAs.
Love, Light and Peace,
- Peter Loveday
Director of Development, eyeon Software
