Originally posted by Sagitta Out of curiosity, if you are using AA's (can't see if you were or weren't), what brand, and have you tried a different set?
Only asking as I was having all sorts of issues with my sparkly new K-30 back when I first received it, using the Pentax AA adapter, and it finally took me physically removing the batteries and looking at the things to realize that I had screwed up AA's in the camera, causing intermittent contact.
I keep this photo handy to remind myself about not cheaping out on my batteries for my camera.
Yes, I can see where that could be a problem. Unfortunately for me, this is not the case. I have three OEM batteries for my K-50 - and 4 OEM batteries for my K-30 - double A's are pretty much never used because it is primarily used as a second body when I'm doing a sporting shoot outside at a gun range, and I take a LOT of pictures with both of my cameras. The K-3 gets more work, but the K-50 does get its fair share of that work as well, simply because the dust factor at the range is always an issue, and changing lenses is NOT optimal out there. If I were using double A batteries, I think I'd be in trouble for cost in a big way - $29 for an OEM battery seems like a large upfront cost at first, but in the end it really does pay for itself.
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Originally posted by tim60 I suspect a big part of this is that we no longer carry the item to the repair facility and have the technician come to the counter to accept it from us. That way we used to be able to SHOW the fault. Even if we did not see the technician, the shop knew we would come back and pick it up face to face, so they would have to get it to work. All manner of problems arise when the description is written and also when the person doing the work does not have a face to face relationship with the person for whom they are doing the work.
Even if I could bring the body to them, it is temperature specific, and only does its 'quitting job' when its below 40 outside (which really is nothing compared to the temps that its supposed to work in!) ,,,and, it only takes about 15 minutes for it to warm up and get back to normal :-( so even the repair company would have to replicate the event - by perhaps putting it into a cold environment. The note was specific in telling them what the problem was, and it seem like they ignored it - I for one am not happy about having to spend the money to ship it out insured without proper scrutiny of the issue on their part.