Originally posted by zxaar your bad luck, either your cam is bad or the battery.
Anyway good that you returned.
for me, used nimh batteries today took around 250 photos, still working fine.
I think pentax should fix this bug, if it is possible to fix in firmware it would be wonderful for people who want buy and use it.
It is hopefully a fixable problem in firmware. If my second camera has this problem, instead of sending it to B&H for yet another camera, I will just call Pentax USA and have them fix the problem.
I can tell the rest of you folks who have not seen the camera, it is a little thing, that feels very nice in your hands. I did not get to take any photos, but from all reports it's high ISO and good DR is exactly what I've been looking for.
This camera, a 15mm DA and my 18-250mm DA in my little Domke bag will fill the bill very nicely as a walk around set up. The fact that the 18-250mm is a bit slow now does not matter much as higher ISO's in this camera are fantastic (according to what I've seen).
I might add from the little I played around with the K-x ..... It focuses MUCH faster than my K20D's or my K200D's ..... and I do mean MUCH faster.
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