hahah...
One day near the future I will buy a canon or a nikon - and I bet you I will be an expert photographer immediately.
2 days ago i went to a family shoot with my K5 and Metz 58. Set the metz to slave, set it off camera, set it to EV -3, and took several test shots. Everything on manual. Great exposure. Decided to put my AF58 on the camera as a master. WHAM. Everything went overexposed, the Metz 58 fired full power..or the AF58 fired too (which shouldnt have happened, because it was set only to control).
Took the AF58 out - and used the onboard flash again to control the Metz. Something must have broke, because now the Metz fires full power all the time. For no reason.
Finally had to do the shot without flash, because I couldnt get the Metz to fire lower anymore.
Then yesterday, did live view for focus on a different shooting, this time model shoot. It was on focus selection. Held the button, select where i want to focus....live view...good. Take a shot. Then another. Then another. Reposition model. Another shot. then...suddenly the manual focusing went awry. No matter what I did, it was autofocusing. Turned it back off. Then back on. Switch the selector to 3 different focus mode, then back to focus selection mode. Nothing. Took another shot. But i fumbled for a bit, then started taking shots manually without live view. Took it off the tripod and hand held the camera. Whatever, then suddenly it worked again.
I dont know. Maybe i will read the manual again. I used to think I just dont know how to use this. Now i am thinking the software is buggy. Sometimes it breaks..can't duplicate it to complain, but it will happen when i need it. I have never complained about front focus, back focus, etc...i just pick up the camera, and adjust focus. I am comfy shooting manual, setting manual. I love my camera. I do not like it when it does funny things on me when I am doing a shoot though - i want it to reliably do something it was doing minutes ago, continuously. Still looking for a Pentax FF.
I am not sending my camera in for repair unless it dies on me. As far as I can tell things just kind of go awry when I start getting fancy. Today shoot wedding ..one setting. Tomorrow shoot indoor small room - bring 3 different flash brands - and try and fire them off each other...things gets hairy. I should have brought radio trigger so I can set the power manually. Then the next day do studio shooting with yet different lights and different focusing and metering. Things gets funny.
Hijacking your thread, apparently
. But i dont think you'd get much out of sending the camera for repair. If its truly broken, then maybe they can adjust it. As far as i can tell about these problems, every unique camera combination needs a different adjustment with different unique lenses..even if they are all the same model. So you need to send in your body and all your lenses and they will fix ("calibrate") it for you. I would think these kind of personalized fix would then be problematic if you buy another lens. LOL. gotta send it back in.
I dont think yours is truly broken - as you never had problem using it by itself. Its just that now you compare it to a completely different camera, you feel its performance is sub-par.
Hijacked your thread to complain! Now back to working on pictures.