Originally posted by OrenMc I just got my replacement camera today ( last camera had issuse )
I pop on a lens an snap a picture and I get a completely underexposed photo. The LCD is black.
It is reading aperture and exposure in viewfinder okay.
I enablel aperture ring in custom function and use aperture ring on lens.
Now I can take a picture.
What is going on? Why won't it work when I have the lens set to "A" and use camera to enable aperture ring.
This one sparked my interest, as I had the same problem about a month ago with my brand new K20D. Tried several different modes (green, P & Av), with & w/o flash, using a couple different memory cards & lenses, and all but one image was black. I took one shot of some rooflines with bright sun behind them, and with that image I could see that SOMETHING registered. (I could barely make out the peeks of the roofs at the very top of the image - so I knew it was capturing something.
I put in a card that had images taken with my K10D and they showed up perfectly on the monitor, so THAT wasn't the issue. After spending about 15 minutes with "Live Help" (or whatever it's called on the Pentax web site) they determined the only thing I could do was send it back to them.
I got a replacement camera about a week later, and it has worked fine. They never did say what was wrong with the first one.