Since the first report I've been doing a little research. By far the most common reports of "banding", in several makes of camera, come from people using the cheap MagicStor 2.2GB microdrives (which are also battery killers, and somewhat prone to burnout).
So it looks like an electronic issue; presumably the drives pull too much current, causing a voltage drop on the sensor. Fred Widall mused: > > Just heard from Pentax Canada regarding my 'banding' problem. > > Pentax Japan has not seen the problem before but thought > that there might be a hardware QA problem with a batch of > *ist-DS's, possibly related to poorly soldered connections. > > They offered me a replacement. However since I've not seen any more > occurances of the problem since I reported it I declined. We > left it that if the problem reoccurs that I will report it, > and get a replacement. > > So if anyone else encounters this problem Pentax would like to > hear from you. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Fred Widall, > Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > URL: http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~fwwidall > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >
