I put almost 6000 shots on my K5 this last trip. No lock ups. My Sigma 18-250 would on occasion refuse to focus at 18mm, just needed a wiggle on the zoom barrel to wake it up.
Gerrit -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Sessoms Sent: April 9, 2013 2:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: K-5 IIs locks up - did the recent firmware updates fix, it? I had something similar happen with the K20D. Had to take the battery out for several minutes before it would work again. It's only happened once and it's been long enough since it happened I don't remember the details too clearly. I did have a problem with just the front wheel "freezing" while I shooting early in the morning in January at the Grand Canyon. Couldn't change the aperture. Turn the wheel and nothing would happen. Fortunately the front wheel in the battery grip continued to work. And later in the day, after the sun was up & the ambient temperature rose, the front wheel started working again. From: Bruce Walker > Me three. K100Ds and K20D never exhibited this freeze-up. I'd be really pissed. On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Kenneth Waller <[email protected]> wrote: >> Me too! I've never had anything of the kind with an ist D, K10D or K 20D. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >>> From: "J.C. O'Connell" <[email protected]> >>> Subject: RE: K-5 IIs locks up - did the recent firmware updates fix it? >>> >>> Ive never had any of these type episodes with my istDS in 7 years. I >>> use NIMH batteries and the camera just goes dead until I put in a >>> newly charged set. >>> >>> ----------------- >>> J.C.O'Connell >>> [email protected] >>> ----------------- >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christine >>> Nielsen >>> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 9:34 AM >>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> Subject: Re: K-5 IIs locks up - did the recent firmware updates fix it? >>> >>> I'm with you, Rob... I experienced this the other day with my K-5... >>> it just wouldn't shoot. Turned off, turned on, battery out, battery >>> in, new battery, AF off, AF on, nothing... meanwhile, the hockey >>> game goes on... I grabbed the k-01, took the 60-250 off the k-5, >>> slapped it on (whoa), and was back in business. Sort of. Minutes >>> later, I tried the k-5 again, with the 21mm, and lo & behold, it's >>> working again. >>> >>> Later, at home, the 60-250 back on the k-5, everything seems to be >>> fine. I'd send it in, but these little episodes are pretty random >>> and infrequent, they could have the camera for weeks, trying to get >>> it to show symptoms... >>> >>> In the end, I wonder if it's just simply because there's a computer >>> inside the camera... and this is just analogous to the spinning >>> pinwheel of death that everyone sees on their monitor now & then...? >>> >>> It's beyond frustrating, though. Especially when shooting at >>> sporting events where I don't have time for that nonsense. >>> >>> :( >>> -c >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Rob Studdert >>> <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> On 8 April 2013 20:39, Bipin Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> That's all lovely but when I'm shooting the 5 mins of performance >>>> of the night that counts I want my top of the line body to just >>>> work, I find it incredible that Pentax delivers cameras that >>>> exhibit these fundamental engineering related problems. -- 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.
