What kind of batteries are you using? Might you have a set of
rechargables that no longer want to hold a charge? Sounds like a
voltage problem to me. If you're using nimh batteries, try a set of
lithiums.
Paul
On Oct 14, 2005, at 7:18 PM, skye wrote:
My *istD is on the fritz and I'm kind of depressed about it. Hoped you
guys would be understanding and sympathetic.
I took it on a one-week trip to costa rica and it stopped working (or
displayed erratic behaviour) for about half a day while I was there,
and finally started up again. I just kept taking the batteries out and
letting it sit for a couple of hours, and putting it back in, until it
started working again. I'm willing to blame high humidity, even though
no one else is.
It has been working for the past 3 weeks since I have been back,
except for Wednesday, when it stopped working in a different way. It
decided that I had zero photospace left on my CF card, and when I hit
the shutter release, the shutter stayed open until I switched off the
camera. I took out the batteries, put them back in. After some initial
confusion, the camera decided I had room on the card after all.
I'm taking it on a hike this weekend, but on Monday it's going to get
mailed back to the camera repair place. It was just there last month
before the trip, and they cleaned it and checked everything. I called
the repair place this afternoon just to make sure I wasn't being a
worrywart, and that this was a problem they could hopefully find and
fix.
Please send good thoughts to my camera: I want them to find something
wrong, that is small and cheap to fix, that will solve all these
problems. If they don't find anything, I don't see how I'll ever be
able to put trust in my camera again.
-- skye :(
