I haven't experienced that on either of my *istD cameras, nor have I heard of it. I think you should send it to Colorado. If you start disassembling things, you could void your warranty. Paul
> I took both my new lenses out for testing today, and I finally found out why > I was having what I thought were metering problems over Christmas: it > appears that the mechanism on the camera that controls the aperture gets > stuck and won't close below around f/5.6. When I tried to do DOF preview, > the aperture wouldn't close at all. We came home and Nate fiddled with the > camera for a while. We thought he'd fixed it, but I only managed to squeeze > off about 5 exposures before the problem reappeared. > > I suppose this means the camera will be making a trip to Colorado, right? Is > there any way we can fix this ourselves, and have any of you seen this on > the istD before? Could it be related to cold weather? It was about 30 > degrees Farenheit today/ > > Thanks, > Amita > >

