On 26 May 2005 at 15:56, Gianfranco Irlanda wrote: > Hi everybody, > > On my second day of use of my second *istD... > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3398772 (1/30 f/2.8) > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3398771 (1s f/2.8) > > and a 100% crop (1/4 f/2) > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3398768 > > All the above at 1600, but it happened something similar at 800 > and even at 400 ASA... Nothing happened the first day (usual > banding every now and then). > > Shot around 750 frames... around 100 of the last 400 had > something (most of the shots suffered in a less spectacular way, > though). > Anyone experienced this kind of phenomenon? > When it first showed I thought it could be a problem of low > batteries, so I changed them, but the problem happened again > later. > Apart from the occasional banding on high speed and low light, > the "old" *istD never gave me something like that. Think that I > wanted to avoid the annoying hot pixels of the old body... > I'm going to return it tomorrow morning. > :,-(
I've experienced the blue banding but not so severely but I've never had rows missing, I don't know what to suggest other than return the camera along with a CD of problem shots to your Pentax dealers and simply demand that it be replaced. Good luck, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
