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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
11-02-2019, 09:22 AM
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
11-02-2019, 09:21 AM
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Forum: Pentax Forums Giveaways
07-24-2018, 01:58 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-12-2018, 02:39 AM
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Hi,
Unfortunately I experienced a malfunction of my beloved K-1 II this week-end while attending an airshow close to my home. I have been in contact with Amazon after-sale services and will get it reimbursed as soon as they receive it.
If you except the few (traumatic) minutes when I understood that I was not going to take pictures of the last part of the airshow in spite of my efforts, and the fact that I only used this camera for a month and a half, it was a rather positive experience. :)
Here are some details:
I had taken around 500 pictures, the battery in the body was about half-full. Since I was not taking pictures constantly, the camera had gone to power-saving, I woke it up by half-pressing the shutter release. I had to press it a bit harder for some reason. No problem. Camera awake, I was happy.
A few minutes later, same thing, I pressed the shutter release, but this time, no success.
No panic, I switched the camera off, then on again a few seconds later. The top display showed the 2 memory cards symbols blinking twice, then the display stayed blank. No way to wake it up. Since I have seen a few posts on resetting camera here, I took the battery out of the camera, but that did not do the trick. I did that again and waited a bit longer (5 min) before putting the battery back. No go. Again, I removed the battery and waited 15 min but still no joy.
Since the top display showed SD cards symbols, I removed the cards and tried again. No luck. I put empty cards in, changed battery. Nothing.
I gave-up.
The day after I contacted Amazon chat for support, and my contact got me to try a few things:
Starting with Menu pressed, to check any firmware display. Nothing (but I knew that, I had tried that as well).
Starting with shutter release pressed to reinitialise the camera (this one, I did not know, but I'll keep it in mind). No joy either.
Turning dials to different positions in case, I quote, "a bad connection would fool the body into 'thinking' that the shutter release is pressed". Nothing.
The chat session lasted about 10 minutes, and decision was made to send the camera back for reimbursement. It is now on the way to some Amazon office / warehouse, so I will soon be able to buy a new one.
I have no idea how this happened, and found no other feedback about anything similar on this forum, so I assume it is just an isolated incident.
Nevertheless, I thought I would let you guys know that it could happen, and no fix was found in my case.
I will soon order a new K-1 II, with no hesitation. It is a body that I loved using for this rather short time, and I am looking forward to using it again soon.
Cheers!
François
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