Brian
I am unclear about why you decided to switch the camera off.
I have had many busy lights without feeling the need to cut it
off ... ;-)
Chris
On 26 Jul 2005, at 10:44, Brian Swale wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Something strange happened on the way to the market.
>
> Not greasy latch pawls or whatever, and probably harder to fix, I'd
> say.
>
> This morning I was taking some E-1 shots as a service for a speaker-
> to-be
> for our residents' association, and I took a couple in fairly quick
> succession.
>
> This story did not come from the Goon Show, by the way.
>
> Now, for the benefit of those of us who have never clapped eyes on
> an E,
> when a photo is taken there is a little red "busy" light at the
> rear of the hand-
> grip that flashes for a couple of seconds while the photo data is
> being written
> to the file storage. Then it is supposed to stop flashing.
>
> I noticed after the 2nd or 3rd shot that the busy light was very
> busy. In fact it
> showed no inclination to stop being red. So, after about 10 - 15
> seconds of
> this activity I decided it was time to call a stop, and switched
> the power
> supply off.
>
> With the power supposedly cut off, the light continued to flash red
> at me as if
> I had done nothing.
>
> After 5 seconds of this, I took the battery out. Then it did stop.
>
> With some trepidation I wondered what revenge would be exacted on
> me for
> showing it who ran the on/off switch, and reconnected the battery.
> Then
> turned it on.
>
> All seemed to be normal. No images lost that I could see except
> perhaps
> one or two I had been trying to make at the start of this fit.. I
> have no idea
> what I did to cause this display of temperament.
>
> I know that sometimes I do upset it by accidentally pressing more
> than one
> button at once; some of the front buttons do get in the way of my
> long fingers
> when I am trying to get the rear display and controls to work, and
> that seems
> to meet with disapproval.
>
> Have any other E users here had this sort of thing happen?
>
> Brian
>
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