>That's interesting. The artifact is very much like one I saw on my first >K7, which went back under warranty. In my case, the band was light, not >dark, and happened in every frame mostly taken out doors. I wonder if >there could be a subtle or latent flaw in the sensor that is susceptible >to EMI? Are you *sure* it has not happened before? At least it is near >the edge of the frame - in my case that subtle band went smack down the >middle of the fram (and it still took me 1000 exposures to notice it.)
I went through the rest of what I had shot and it was not there. Oddly enough it appears to have harmonics. When I looked through the images, some of them have a lower-level vertical banding at various places on the image. (So I'm really not thinking shutter speed.) The full-size example that I linked to has some of these visible, but you have to scroll through across and look for the subtle influence rather than the one most visible band. Since it *appears* to have harmonics, that goes to EMI/hash in the air causing issues with electronics. And that seems even more consistent with what my local expert has stated. Sincerely, Collin Brendemuehl "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" -- Jim Elliott -- 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.
