On Nov 16, 2011, at 9:56 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > At the PDML Marin gathering, on two occasions my K-5 locked up, with the > mirror up. Turning the power off, and back on, fixed the problem. Someone > suggested that it might have been low batteries, so I shrugged it off. > > Tonight, when I was shooting belt tests at the dojo, with a fresh battery in > the camera, it did it again. The first time it did it, I noticed what > seemed to be a normally exposed frame flash on the LCD. I have one frame > from tonight that was all black. Has anyone else had a similar problem? > > I'm not sure, but I believe that both of the shots happened with the > transcend rather than the sandisk memory card in the camera. I have noticed > that the camera did seem to respond a bit more sluggishly with the transcend > card. I suspect that these details are just spurious and coincidental, but > that was the only thing in common with the two locked up frames that was > different from a significant number of other frames.
I just noticed that rather than one unexposed frame, I have two consecutive unexposed frames. curiouser and curiouser. So one of the times it happened, no problem. One of the times it happened I got two consecutive unexposed frames. > -- 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.

