Much ado about nothing, methinks. A genuine Pentax battery is about $36. That's the cost of, what, 3 or 4 rolls of film with processing? That makes the savings from off-brand batteries the cost of 1 or 2 rolls of film. Sheesh.
Switching to digital allowed me to recover from a 50-roll-per-year Ektachrome habit. The extra cost of a brand-name battery is a flea turd in a sandbox, and well worth the extra reliability and peace of mind. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW ----- Original Message ----- From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 3:19 AM Subject: Re: Stupid K-5 trick On 11/16/2011 11:58 PM, Dario Bonazza wrote: > Re-sending... > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dario Bonazza" > <[email protected]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 8:54 AM > Subject: Re: Stupid K-5 trick > > >> It also happenedd to me a few times. Always with a non-genuine battery >> near the end of its charge. Switching off and on did not unlock the >> camera, while removing the battery did the trick. However, if you >> insert the almost-depleted battery again, the camera will lock again. >> Insert a charged battery and all is working again, possibly up to the >> next end of charge. Good to know. It was indeed a non-Pentax battery, (I'm sure it was genuinely a battery). In theory it was fairly fully charged. But it may have happened after I shot a bunch of frames all at once. It's definitely something for me to keep an eye on. It's not nearly as annoying as when my camera just crapped out and said that every battery I had was dead for 20 minutes, during a paid shoot. Speaking of batteries, since I'm no longer shooting the K-x every day, I'm not charging the hybrids nearly as often, and I'm finding when I pull them out of my bag that most of them are reading dead when I put them in the K-x. This is after years of them working wonderfully, and with at least two different brands. -- Larry Colen [email protected] (from dos4est) -- 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.
