I've never seen the phenomena to date, after using the D for a year and a
half. Yikes.
You've had the blue banding Rob?
Tom C.
From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Creepy *istD problem...
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 09:03:23 +1000
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
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Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
