On Sep 23, 2012, at 7:38 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: > 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.
I too have a replacement shutter mechanism in my K-5. I have had a couple of issues in the past week where it just did some whacky shit with the flash attached. Not allowing me to set the shutter speed faster than 1/90 second, and other things. I had to take the battery out of the camera for a few seconds to get it to behave. I think it happened the first time about a week ago in SF, and I forgot about it until it happened to me again yesterday. I am getting a bit nervous now. -- 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.
