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SDQ or SDQ-H Users or Issues

Started Mar 21, 2022 | Discussions thread
Innocentius Senior Member • Posts: 1,009
Re: SDQ or SDQ-H Users or Issues
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Roger wrote:

Greetings Sigma users

Long story short, I was doing a magazine shoot at high altitude 6000-7000 ft this last week. I decided to use the SDQ and the FP, the FP worked fine no issues, but the SDQ would go into the sleep mode between shoots, and when I pushed the shutter release button to wake the Q up it went to SD logo black screen on the LCD and that's it. I kept having to turn the SDQ on and off to get it to work.

Ok, now the weather, it was cold, snowy and windy, temperature was 38 degrees F with a 15 mph wind or more, so about 10 degrees F. The camera and lens had snow on them, but here's the kicker, my son's Nikon D610 with a Sigma 18-50 lens never missed a lick, zero issues. I've used my SDQ-H, SD1M, and SD15 in this type climate without issues. I now use the SDQ-H and FP for the different color modes.

Oh Well

Take care have fun

Roger J.

No idea what the manual says about working in the cold. But here in Sweden I have an extensive experience with cameras and the cold. Somehow my Sigma DP3M seems most vurnerable: it eats batteries like crazy when it is around 3F / -16 celcius - happhy if I can take 10 shots. My other cameras don't have these issues. Then again, I have batteries from fleabay

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