Thanks, Jostein... you are very kind to reply to my plea, but... Just when I thought I couldn't feel any dumber... I check the firmware & discover I'm running "k-7 ver 1.02". Yup, I had grabbed the wrong camera.
So... nevermind. Sigh. Just to clarify -- I'm not blonde. But this is a doozie... :/ -c On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Jostein Øksne <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm a bit far away from my K-5 just now, but I believe there is a separate > setting that limits the range for Auto ISO. > > Jostein > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christine Nielsen" <[email protected]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 6:53 PM > Subject: Help! Can't get k-5 past 6400 iso... > > >> Ok, I feel like a dummy here, there must be something obvious I'm >> missing... and I routinely shoot my k-5 at higher ISOs, just >> yesterday I was shooting at 8000, last Saturday at 16,000, so I'm not >> even sure how I got into this jam, but here it is: >> >> In manual, I cannot adjust my iso beyond the range of 100 - 6400. In >> the Custom menu, 3. expanded sensitivity, is set to "on", but it >> describes this option as enabling sensitivity up to iso 6400. In the >> Record menu, ISO sensitivity Auto setting, same thing. I cannot >> adjust to lower than 100, nor higher than 6400. >> >> What am I missing here? I have a dim recollection of this happening >> to me once before... and there was another setting I missed... but >> can't for the life of me recall, and I have rtfm several times, to no >> avail. Thoughts? >> >> 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. >> > > > -- > 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.

