Quoting Jerome Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > How does one know when the batteries are getting low > > besides having problems with the camera? Is there a battery > > test or check feature? > > I remember playing with a pre-production model a couple of years ago at > GFM before the camera hit the market. Everything worked fine on it... > except the battery indicator would flip out more often than not. It would > show depletion... but then if you turned the camera off and on, or better > yet just let it sit for a while, and it would be totally full again. The > joke was that the camera was self-charging. But in all seriousness, we > were told that this was the last kink in the system that Pentax had to > work out... but perhaps they didn't quite get it right until a few > production lines rolled.
Mine does this on occasion -- depleted indicator that shows full again when the camera's turned off and back on. > <shrug> > > As for the ISO 1600 problem, I haven't noticed it, but then I pretty much > stay around 200 or 400. And I can't even give it a shot since my camera > finds itself (yet again!) in Colorado being repaired. Has the be the 3rd > or 4th time by now. What a drag. Haven't noticed the ISO 1600 problem either, and I use 1600 a lot. ERNR
