Originally posted by Love my K10D Hey folks,
I own a Pentax K10D that i've been shooting with for over 3 years (i love it). In the past 6 months i've had an intermitent problem with the manual mode that has become more and more previlant and has now become permanent. This is a problem because i do 90% of my shooting in manual mode.
Namely, when i switch into M mode and try to indpendantly adjust my apature or shutter settings the camera automatically adjust the other (shutter when i adjust apature, or apature when i adjust shutter). So, in effect, it acts just like its in TAv mode. I have, at times, been able to switch between modes a few times and succesfully get the M mode to work properly but that no longer works. Its as if the M mode is not engaging and the camera is staying in TAv mode instead. I have tried reseting the camera to factory defaults with no change in the situation.
Has anyone else ever experienced this problem? Can anyone sugest things i could try? I fear that the body may need to be sent in for repair but the cost of doing so is high enough that i'd probably be better off just investing in a new body.
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance!
Doesn't sound like TAv mode. In TAv mode, you can also select aperture and shutter speeds independently, just like M mode, but the ISO will vary, while in M mode, the ISO is fixed. This behavior sounds a bit more like Hyper Program mode.
What it does sound like is that you might have engaged the AE lock in M mode, so the other setting changes as you change one setting to maintain the same exposure. Do you see a * lit in the viewfinder?
Can you turn on Auto ISO? If you cannot, then you are in M mode (I think)