Usually when my batteries get to that point, my D just shuts down. I
have heard that others have had similar experiences to yours however.
Joseph Tainter wrote:
After playing with the FA 300 f4.5 two nights ago, doing a lot of
gratuitous close-up autofocusing, I went into the menu to reformat the
card. As soon as I called up the menu the camera froze. It would not
do anything. I could not even turn it off. Finally I thought to open
the battery compartment. I did, and reclosed it, and the camera came
back to life.
The batteries had over 1,000 shots on them, and it must be a big drain
autofocusing that heavy lens. So I assume that the batteries were so
drained that the camera could do nothing but display the menu.
I put in fresh batteries and the D seems fine now. I believe I recall
others having similar odd problems when batteries get low.
Joe
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