TimNielsen
Active member
Having played with my new camera for a few days, some questions:
Does anyone else have a 'loose' spot on the case, pretty much exactly where your thumb rests when holding the camera? My case is loose there, and makes this clicking sound every time I pick up the camera and put my thumb there. It's of course the most annoying spot for there to be a loose body part on the camera. Not the end of the world, but wondering if anyone else notices it on theirs? If you push in with your thumb, does the case 'detent' at all?
How often are people finding they need to reset their camera? Mine has been acting buggy since I got it, and have had to reset it now several times. Some examples of what might happen:
I'm trying to set the autobracket, moves the dial to that mode, and the top screen, showing the amount of AB, start going all jittery, numbers flashing, and then disappear. Moving the knob off AB back to AB, and the same things happens. I can't actually select an AB amount now, once the numbers are gone.
Often I'm focusing and the focus will lock and beep indicating focus, but the camera has in fact selected 00 as the shutter speed. When I engage the shutter, then mirror basically goes into 'bulb'. The lens closes down, the shutter opens until I let go. No picture is actually taken in this bug. When I let go, there is a pause, the shutter closes, another pause, and the lens will open the aperture again. I cannot figure out any rhyme or reason for this. I'm using Program mode, and sometimes it works fine. This is happening about 10% of the time I'd say.
The screen on the back of my camera, the LCD, also has a very noticable 'refresh' jitter in most modes (except the menu). But looking at images, or the preview, the screen definitely jumps a bit, like slow interlacing on a monitor). Wondering also is this is just the screen, or if maybe something on the 'brains' of my camera is really screwed up. It doesn't bother me, just wondering if no-one elses is doing it, maybe it's indicative of something more wrong with my SD14.
Seems like I shouldn't be having to constantly 'reset' the camera like this to keep it running though... Resetting it does fix the AB bug at least, for a while. We'll see this time how long until the camera starts acting weird again.
I do have firmware 1.04 installed.
Tim
Does anyone else have a 'loose' spot on the case, pretty much exactly where your thumb rests when holding the camera? My case is loose there, and makes this clicking sound every time I pick up the camera and put my thumb there. It's of course the most annoying spot for there to be a loose body part on the camera. Not the end of the world, but wondering if anyone else notices it on theirs? If you push in with your thumb, does the case 'detent' at all?
How often are people finding they need to reset their camera? Mine has been acting buggy since I got it, and have had to reset it now several times. Some examples of what might happen:
I'm trying to set the autobracket, moves the dial to that mode, and the top screen, showing the amount of AB, start going all jittery, numbers flashing, and then disappear. Moving the knob off AB back to AB, and the same things happens. I can't actually select an AB amount now, once the numbers are gone.
Often I'm focusing and the focus will lock and beep indicating focus, but the camera has in fact selected 00 as the shutter speed. When I engage the shutter, then mirror basically goes into 'bulb'. The lens closes down, the shutter opens until I let go. No picture is actually taken in this bug. When I let go, there is a pause, the shutter closes, another pause, and the lens will open the aperture again. I cannot figure out any rhyme or reason for this. I'm using Program mode, and sometimes it works fine. This is happening about 10% of the time I'd say.
The screen on the back of my camera, the LCD, also has a very noticable 'refresh' jitter in most modes (except the menu). But looking at images, or the preview, the screen definitely jumps a bit, like slow interlacing on a monitor). Wondering also is this is just the screen, or if maybe something on the 'brains' of my camera is really screwed up. It doesn't bother me, just wondering if no-one elses is doing it, maybe it's indicative of something more wrong with my SD14.
Seems like I shouldn't be having to constantly 'reset' the camera like this to keep it running though... Resetting it does fix the AB bug at least, for a while. We'll see this time how long until the camera starts acting weird again.
I do have firmware 1.04 installed.
Tim
could be totally unrelated , but it does feel like its a brand new ( and much better) camera now ...
