Clean the contacts. Paul via phone
> On Sep 9, 2015, at 4:54 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I've been noticing that the Vivitar 70-210mm will lose contact with the > K-5II more than once in a while. This wouldn't be bad, except in P and M > mode it's like hitting the green button, any aperture or shutter settings are > reset to base. I hadn't noticed this before and I thought that there might > be something going wrong with the lens. It's really very annoying. > > Then I thought, what if it's a problem with the K-5II? That would be a > bummer, but at least the Camera is still under warranty. So I mounted the > lens on the K20D and THE K20D WORKS ENTIRELY DIFFERENTLY!!! > > The lens has probably always lost momentary communication with the camera, > but the K20D simply goes back to where it was, when contact is resumed. The > shutter and aperture don't reset. Why the hell would Ricoh rewrite the the > code to do this? It makes no particular sense. This issue could surface > with any A lens. > > End of rant, you may now resume your regularly scheduled entertainment. > > -- > I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve > immortality through not dying. > -- Woody Allen > > > -- > 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.
