K-R's SR is jiggling in LV and Video.

Kryscendo · 04-26-2012, 12:39 AM

Hey there guys. I just noticed something today that has me quite worried. I put my K-r into live view about 15minutes ago and noticed the insides moving around quite a lot and noisily at that. As I pan or tilt or rotate, the SR mechanism seems to be well, not so stable anymore. Any reasons why this may be? Should I send it in to get it repaired?

The only strange thing I was doing with my camera recently was toying around in PK Tether which is admittedly a cool project and I got tethering to work miraculously but it did hard lock up my camera a few times which which I had to unfreeze by removing the battery. The camera has never displayed this behavior before so I am hoping everything will be okay. Can anybody comment on this?

Adam · 05-07-2012, 10:06 PM

This is to be expected, as the K-r is a bit more noisy than say the K-01 in this respect. As long as the picture isn't shaking abnormally, I wouldn't be too concerned.

geru2000 · 05-08-2012, 08:05 PM

Originally posted by Kryscendo

Hey there guys. I just noticed something today that has me quite worried. I put my K-r into live view about 15minutes ago and noticed the insides moving around quite a lot and noisily at that. As I pan or tilt or rotate, the SR mechanism seems to be well, not so stable anymore. Any reasons why this may be? Should I send it in to get it repaired?

The only strange thing I was doing with my camera recently was toying around in PK Tether which is admittedly a cool project and I got tethering to work miraculously but it did hard lock up my camera a few times which which I had to unfreeze by removing the battery. The camera has never displayed this behavior before so I am hoping everything will be okay. Can anybody comment on this?

PK Tether locks when the buffer is full you should remove the photos after viewing. I have mine go to a file on my computer after viewing so I never have more than one in the program at any time and since making this change I've had no lock-ups.

My Kr does the same but it doesn't affect the video.

04-26-2012, 12:39 AM	#1
Kryscendo Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 222	K-R's SR is jiggling in LV and Video. Hey there guys. I just noticed something today that has me quite worried. I put my K-r into live view about 15minutes ago and noticed the insides moving around quite a lot and noisily at that. As I pan or tilt or rotate, the SR mechanism seems to be well, not so stable anymore. Any reasons why this may be? Should I send it in to get it repaired? The only strange thing I was doing with my camera recently was toying around in PK Tether which is admittedly a cool project and I got tethering to work miraculously but it did hard lock up my camera a few times which which I had to unfreeze by removing the battery. The camera has never displayed this behavior before so I am hoping everything will be okay. Can anybody comment on this?

05-07-2012, 10:06 PM	#2
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05-08-2012, 08:05 PM	#3
geru2000 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Watertown, NY Posts: 267	Originally posted by Kryscendo Hey there guys. I just noticed something today that has me quite worried. I put my K-r into live view about 15minutes ago and noticed the insides moving around quite a lot and noisily at that. As I pan or tilt or rotate, the SR mechanism seems to be well, not so stable anymore. Any reasons why this may be? Should I send it in to get it repaired? The only strange thing I was doing with my camera recently was toying around in PK Tether which is admittedly a cool project and I got tethering to work miraculously but it did hard lock up my camera a few times which which I had to unfreeze by removing the battery. The camera has never displayed this behavior before so I am hoping everything will be okay. Can anybody comment on this? PK Tether locks when the buffer is full you should remove the photos after viewing. I have mine go to a file on my computer after viewing so I never have more than one in the program at any time and since making this change I've had no lock-ups. My Kr does the same but it doesn't affect the video.