If the flash should not cause the problem. Do the viewfinder LED's go out approximately 25 sec after activation? Does anything in your bag touch the exposure compensation release?
Regards, Bob... -------------------- "Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. Let us remember that 'if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.' It is a very serious consideration that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event." - Samuel Adams, 1771 From: "Peter Smekal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Another strange thing happened with the "almost new" LX. Thursday evening I > put in a pair of new batteries (Duracell 1.5V Silver Oxide), I shot 1 > (one!) roll of film to test it and on Saturday morning the camera was dead! > After 36 hours and 1 roll of film. I put in a new pair of batteries and it > worked again. I really don't understand how this could happen. The LX > doesn't seem to have any switch-off button as far as I can see. > Either the batteries I bought were not fresh at all or there is something > terribly wrong with the electronics of the camera. > I can add that I was using an old electronic flash (Braun Hobby 260 BC) and > I had it mounted on the camera and connected to the X-sync-contact over > night. Could that have been the reason for the battery exaustion? - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
