Is this when using a Microdrive? I find with the muvo extraction card I get some strange behaviour even when the battery has a reasonable amount of life left. I am guessing that writing to the microdrive requires far more load than a normal card. This seems to drop the battery indicator to the next level down until the write has finished and possibly slightly longer while the batteries recover.
Never had your 'weird second shutter' or 'not showing aperture' etc, but if there is not enough power left in the batts to do something like AF at the same time as writing the card then I could see why this might happen. By shutting down and starting up again you co-incidentally give the write operation time to complete and give the batteries time to recover. Juist a thought... > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Loveday [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 June 2004 06:16 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: *istD low-battery weirdness > > > 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 > >
