Just curious... what was your battery level like? If it was marginal when you began, the constant focusing might have pushed it over some threshold. If not, then "nevermind"!
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Jack Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This AMI was trying to wait out a perched young eagle. Don't believe I've > ever spent so much time > continuously checking a rechecking the focus for such a long period of time. > Could have been > something like 20 mins. I got arm weary and kept changing location in and > around the rig. > I finally decided to edge a little closer, so began to walk slowly in his > direction. At exactly > that time my K-3 went off in AF-S mode speed (It was set to AF-C) and ran for > 7 to 10 secs. I noticed > it was not moving any images to the buffer and found that no images were > taken during that burst. > I don't believe the mirror was activated, only the shutter.(?) > At this point, it's taking pictures and acting normally in all respects. > I once had a shutter freeze up on my K-5 while doing a similar thing awaiting > a giant Red Tail hawk > to launch. Battery removal and re-install fixed it. > Continual focus checking for an extended period seems to have it's circuit > disrupting consequences. > > Anyone? > > Thanks!! > > Jack > > > > -- > 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. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- 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.
