Only one camera for a paid shoot?? Rick
http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Sat, 9/17/11, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > I was photographing a friend's party > tonight, when my K-5 stopped taking pictures. > > When I looked at the back, I got the "battery depleted" > message, so I grabbed one of my spares. When I put it > in, I got the same problem. I grabbed my other spare, and > ran into the same problem again. This was rather > distressing as I had made sure to top off at least one of > the batteries before leaving. After leaving the camera > off, while one of the batteries was in a third party > charger, for a while, it started working. > > Now that I'm home, I realize that the charger was showing > me the whole time that the battery was charged (green light, > it turns out it shines red when the battery is dead). > Not only that, but at least two of the batteries show that > they were fully charged when I got home. > > One thing that may be relevant, or not, is that I had been > shooting a performance, and when the card filled up, it > seemed to take a *really* long time to write everything in > the buffer to the card, which left me stuck there, not able > to do *anything* while the big performance that the birthday > girl, who had hired me, and practiced for months, was going > on. > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] > sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
