enboe Posted November 19, 2009 Share #1 Posted November 19, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) I had the chance to take the M9 out for a couple of day-long walk arounds. I have noticed three glitches: 1) The camera will occasionally not record an image and go into a flashing red LED lock-up state. A battery removal resets the camera, and, unfortunately, wipes the image. 2) The camera goes into a flashing red LED lock-up state after a sequence of 6 or so shoots. It never completes writing the images to card. 3) Unrelated, but I am unable to register the camera at the users page. Multiple calls to New Jersey, but not resolved yet. I am using Extreme iii Class 10, Ultra ii Class 4, Ultra ii Class 2, and a couple of plain Sandisk Class 2, with similar results on all. All have been fully formatted and overwritten in camera. The operational flow that seems most reliable is to fire up the camera, press info to verify the card is accessed, and then shoot one frame at a time, waiting for it to write before taking a follow-up shot. Any similar experiences or tips? Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted November 19, 2009 Posted November 19, 2009 Hi enboe, Take a look here A couple of problems, but maybe its just me. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
spersky Posted November 19, 2009 Share #2 Posted November 19, 2009 I am using some generic wolf camera sd card with a 1/4 charged battery and have not even had a single lockup. However, I only shoot in DNG. I wonder if shooting in Jpeg causes the glitch. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted November 19, 2009 Share #3 Posted November 19, 2009 I havent seen this behaviour. I would reload the firmware if I were you. And reformat the cards in the computer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SP0 Posted November 24, 2009 Share #4 Posted November 24, 2009 1) The camera will occasionally not record an image and go into a flashing red LED lock-up state. A battery removal resets the camera, and, unfortunately, wipes the image Exactly the same has happened to me a dozen or so times (Sandisk cards, shooting in DNG). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpattinson Posted November 24, 2009 Share #5 Posted November 24, 2009 1 and 2 sound depressingly familiar. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebelfocus Posted November 24, 2009 Share #6 Posted November 24, 2009 1 and 2 sound depressingly familiar. No freezes or lockups here at all. I have a 16Gb Sandisk Extreme III 30 Mb/s (and a 4Gb) but they are both the Type 6 - not the mysterious and troublesome Type 10. I've seen a few people mention problems with the Type 10 card on other forums. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WPalank Posted November 24, 2009 Share #7 Posted November 24, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Is there a chance that you are shooting continuous (main switch below the shutter release button pointing to "C") while you have "Discrete" mode selected in the Camera Menu? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SP0 Posted November 24, 2009 Share #8 Posted November 24, 2009 Is there a chance that you are shooting continuous (main switch below the shutter release button pointing to "C") while you have "Discrete" mode selected in the Camera Menu? I thought they fixed that problem a while back. Anyway, it's not what's happening in my case. Typically the freezes seem to come while I am fiddling around with the zoom/advance button, looking at an image. I blow it up a step or two, and the camera freezes with the flashing light on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikasmg Posted November 24, 2009 Share #9 Posted November 24, 2009 1) The camera will occasionally not record an image and go into a flashing red LED lock-up state. A battery removal resets the camera, and, unfortunately, wipes the image. This happened to me twice but each time I think I switched off the camera before it had finished writing to the card. Still should not have happened, but after that I was careful about it and it has not happened since. - Vikas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SP0 Posted November 25, 2009 Share #10 Posted November 25, 2009 It's happened enough times that I'm quite concerned. Don't want to send my M9 in for repair though if it is a firmware bug. From other replies here the latter sounds likely. Another quirk is that occasionally it fails to rotate an image correctly. I guess that one is more likely to be a fault of my camera. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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