I don't believe I've ever encountered this problem with my K-5, which operates only on Pentax batteries -- two at a time, because I always use the grip, and I charge the batteries more often than needed. I did experience occasional shutdowns with my K20D, in which I used a variety of third party batteries. As with your experience, the K20D shutdowns were resolved by turning the camera off and back on. One or two of my third party batteries eventually failed in full. Paul On Nov 18, 2011, at 5:47 AM, Bipin Gupta wrote:
> Hi Bob, I am with you on the K-5 idiosyncrasies and read about this > particular silly battery problem. I also read on the net not to wait > for a complete discharge of the battery, but to recharge them when the > camera shows half to quarter charge. Li-ion cells do not have the > dreaded "memory" effect. Never the less I am an "old school" chap, and > do discharge them fully now and then. > I do not have the grip for the K-5, so cannot say about "AA" > rechargeables. I have known electronic stuff to just "hang" silly for > nothing. The only answer is the "remove and re-install" battery > routine. > Can we get an opinion from Pentax / Ricoh Japan on this silly problem? > Especially since the K20D does not show this problem - thanks God my > new K-5 is OK till now. How about the Canikons? > Regards. Bipin. > > -- > 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.
