Ouch.
I can totally relate to your frustration.
Haven't got much hair left either... :-)
Jostein
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Cottrell" <[email protected]>
To: "pentax list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 12:30 PM
Subject: Why I have no hair left to pull out
Morning listers,
Saturday morning here, sat with the Earl Grey (hot) contemplating the day.
Thought I'd relay a brief phone conversation I had with one of my wife's
cronies last night after the phone was shoved into my hand, interrupting
my viewing pleasure of 'Sky Cops'. It transpired she just returned form
a trip to Poland and couldn't take any pics with her Pentax camera due
to 'card error' messages on her rear LCD. The conversation went like
this....
Me - Hi how's things.
Crony - I just got back fro Poland.
Me - Oh really, have a nice time?
C - No. My couldn't take any photographs with my camera, had to take
them all on my phone!
Me - Oh really? Why not?
C - I kept getting an error message on the back saying 'card error'.
Me - I see. Where did you get this card?
C - Argos (think Walmart).
Me - I see. did you try formatting the card?
C - What's that?
Me - Formatting the card. You format it in the camera. (Sky Cops: an
urgent call to a crime scene)
C - no, how do I do that?
Me - it tells you how to do it in the manual, it's usually in the set up
menu somewhere. Which camera is it?
C - that small Pentax that I bought for £10 from Alma - it was the one
Stefan dropped.
Me - really? Don't know anything about it. What kind of camera is it?
C - it's small.
Me - does it have a large screen on the back and when you turn it on the
lens pops out from behind a cover?
C - yes!!
Me - I though you bought a K-30 or something? (Sky Cops - it's night and
he's hiding on a roof)
C - yes I did. Remember I brought it around to show you a while back.
Me - but you also have this small Pentax as well?
C - yes.
Me - Okay. Why didn't you take your K-30 to Poland?
C - It's too heavy.
Me - I see. So you didn't format this card when you first got it?
C - No, I've never done that. The card I got with the K-30 just worked
when I put it in the camera.
Me - I see. And so what happened when you tried to take pics in Poland?
C - it wouldn't let me. There were other photographers around and they
couldn't make it work either.
Me - so there are currently no photos on that particular card?
C - no.
Me - is the 'write protect' switch perhaps set to prevent its use? (Sky
Cops - thermal imaging - they'll get the guy!!!)
C - the what?
Me - the 'write protect' switch. It's a little plastic switch on the
side of the card. Have you got the card?
C - yes. What does it look like?
Me - look for a small bit of plastic, usually a different colour from
the main plastic. It might say 'lock' or something.
C - can't see anything, what does it do?
Me - well, let's say you take some pictures and then remove the card and
let someone else use it, but you don't want them to accidentally erase
the card - you flip this switch.
C - but then they couldn't use it?
Me - I mean if they were going to, say, copy some pictures across to
their computer or something. In case they accidentally erased the card
[thinking...bet this happens all the time with your friends...]
C - oh I see. How clever. I can't see anything.
Me - what make is the card?
C - Sandisk.
Me - Hmm. What class?
C - it says 'class 4'.
Me - What size?
C - small.
Me - I mean in gigabytes - 16? 32?
C - 16.
Me - have you got the camera there?
C - Yes.
Me - put it in the camera. (Sky Cops - closing in with the thermal
imaging - they've got him!)
C - Okay, now what?
Me - press the 'menu' button and scroll through, see if you can find the
'format' menu.
C - okay.....I found it!!!
Me - click on format and confirm
C - okay. It's saying 'card error'.
Me - Right, now take it out of there and put it in your K-30 and do the
same thing. If it happens in the K-30 then the card is faulty. If it
doesn't happen in the K-30 then the small Pentax camera is faulty.
C - but if I put my other card in the small Pentax camera it takes
pictures.
Me - what other card?
C - the one that came with the K-30.
Me - I see (rapidly losing interest now)
C - so what would you do?
Me - I'd need to have the card in my hands and do some tests with my own
camera and computer.
C - Oh I see.
Me - or you could just take the card back to the shop and exchange it.
C - can I bring it around for you to look at.
Me - yes of course (and some bamboo to shove up my fingernails).
C - Okay thanks!
Me - I'll pass you back.
Sky Cops closing end credits...
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Cotty
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