Originally posted by DRabbit awaldram:
With all the cameras I have owned over the years, I've never had a camera that locked up and needed to have the battery removed for it to continue functioning. I think to insinuate that it's "common" is a bit ludicrous.
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Ludicrous, is to use a strawman to imply my words from Jannuary are a lie .... In your sad little crusade youve lost all grip on reality.
As the Gordo said ". I've never had to remove the battery." yet you inerpret it to " needed to have the battery removed for it to continue functioning"
I never said or implied it was 'common' that is also you own little universe .
I suppose in your little world I wrote it to refute your one cause mirror flops before you had them
Your agenda is running a little tired now it's time you gave it a rest.
You chose to accept your retailers offer of replacement K5iis for you k3's , you have not had any direct contact with Pentax and your agreement is now complete.
Yet having had your resolution your now having remorse and wish to make Pentax, Ricoh and everone suffer for your choices it's all very sad.
As Ray pointed out your rapidly becoming the new Barry Fitzgerald who did the same as you for the Kr and then after 2 years ranting about Pentax had the same issue with Nikon D90's.
It appears the adage of a bad Workman (or woman) and their tools is alive and kicking.
The k3 was not suitable for your purpose and now it not suitable for anyone, and all thosse 95%+ with no issue are liers or lucky.!!!
And the OP's issue from Jannuary he wrote in another thread 30th Jan
"I finally got a second battery for my k3 camera.
The power on problem with the previous batch of battery grips seems to be fixed in this new batch from B&H, however I will continue to monitor the behavior of my k3 with the grip to see if the problem is really resolved. So far, I tested my camera for two days and the result I got seemed consistent, no changes yet."
Read more at:
https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/172-pentax-k-3/242792-k-3-power-issue-6.html#ixzz2zpPkrJVQ
As he's reported no more issues it certainly looks like a faulty battery LoL
---------- Post added 24-04-14 at 06:58 PM ----------
Originally posted by Gordo I just had an "interesting" K-3 lockup today. Camera was on a tripod set for 2-second timer. It had been powered up for about a minute. I used live view to manually focus. Hit the red button to turn off LV, then pressed the shutter button to start the 2-second timer. After 4 beeps (less than one second) the camera froze. No more beeps, shutter did not fire. After 5 or 10 seconds the camera powered itself down (top LCD went off). My first thought was that the battery died. I powered it back on and successfully made the shot. Battery is a Pentax Ricoh D-LI90 recently charged (LCD shows 3 bars - full). Firmware 1.03. No grip.
I've had maybe 3 other lockups since getting the K-3 in November. In all cases the camera had been recently powered up (a minute or two) and the camera became non-responsive for at least 10 or 15 seconds: shutter wouldn't fire, menu or other buttons have no effect. Power button had no effect initially, but after 10 or 20 seconds the power button did turn the camera off, then it was fine. I've never had to remove the battery.
Hi Gordo
It sounds like you have a faulty camera or battery.
If I was you I;d get a cheap knock off battery and see if you get the same issue if that clears it up then try and pursuade you local Penrax dealer to replace the battery .
If the symtom remains then I'd send you camera for warranty repair, 3 lockups in 6 months is not normal.
One other thought is RF, do you keep phone near the camera as this could possibly cause this
Though some here want to lump all issues as one (I know reall loony tunes material) There are many things that can cause you camera to lock out
from enviromentals to battery so don't let Amy's 'it's a feature of the camera . poor design get somthing else' mentality frighten you.[COLOR="Silver"]
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