Hello all, Here's a head-scratcher:
Tonight, I was shooting senior portraits of my son. We had gone out to the track at the high school, a place he holds quite dear, for the occasion. As the evening grew darker, I had my flash (540) set up on a stand & softbox, firing with the camera's wireless remote system. All was fine, more or less, for several minutes. Until the camera stopped shooting. I would press the shutter, and I'd get a flicker of light (focus assist or pop up flash signalling the 540? not sure..), but the shutter wouldn't fire. Several times I would re-focus and try again, but nothing. I tried the following: - turning the whole thing off & on again - turning off the focus assist light - setting the AF to release priority, instead of focus priority - using manual focus - turning off flash, shooting manual exposure mode - shooting in Av, Tv, Tav, P and AUTO None of these got the shutter to fire. We packed it in for the day, and when I got home, 20 minutes later, I tried the camera again. Worked fine, in Av, M, Tav, etc... though I didn't try it with the wireless flash again... Mind you, this whole shutter mechanism was recently replaced (6 months ago) at CRIS. So, I'm thinking I must be doing something wrong, or at least missing something. What do you make of this? Any thoughts? Lastly, just for fun -- a peso. My son, Nick, from tonight. Looking as bad as he is able... http://www.flickr.com/photos/23028562@N04/8018036378/in/photostream/ Thanks in advance-- :) -c - -- 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.
