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My new G9 is broke!

Started Jul 10, 2018 | Discussions thread
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SethG Senior Member • Posts: 1,247
My new G9 is broke!

Hi All,

Well, I finally pulled the trigger on the G9 (with the grip) from B&H. Got it about a week ago and took it with me for the "long weekend" to do a photo shoot with my sister-in-law, and some family group photos of my buddy and his wife & daughters. Besides the usual problems of futzing around with a new camera (who reads manuals??? Wait? How do I do that thing????) the camera kept locking up. At first I noticed that buttons wouldn't work. For example, I didn't have the camera set to display the photo on the LCD for a few seconds, so when I'd try to chimp, I'd hit the "play" button, and sometimes it wouldn't work. Or, at least, nothing seemed to happen. And the LCD would blank out. My G7 used to do that when I got too close to the EVF, but that wasn't the case here. The EVF would be blank, too.

It was happening pretty frequently. Like, maybe every 10 shots.
I'm ASSUMING that it's not some overzealous power-save option that I accidentally set, and I pinged B&H about exchanging it. Has anyone seen anything like this before?

Thanks!

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