Jim Watts
Still trying to See.
RML said:Jim, I'll try all of that!
Hopefully things will have worked out by then; either I get the shutter to fire properly or the camera lands in the street after falling 3 stories.
Which street? So I can be there with my net. I could use another body.
SteveRD1
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Its here
Its here
It was 3 h ours late since my FedEx guy called in sick, but I have opened it and took 3 test shots to try it out. BIG difference from my E1 DSLR! Have TWO huge dead pixels, even at ISO200. That kind of stinks being that i just spent $3k on the camera! Ill test more tonight as i have to work today!
Its here
It was 3 h ours late since my FedEx guy called in sick, but I have opened it and took 3 test shots to try it out. BIG difference from my E1 DSLR! Have TWO huge dead pixels, even at ISO200. That kind of stinks being that i just spent $3k on the camera! Ill test more tonight as i have to work today!
SteveRD1
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Oh, BTW, my serial# is 004**2
sgy1962
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What's a dead pixel?
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RML
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Is it for sure that the bodies are numbered sequentially? Mine says 13xx on the top and from Dr Yao I got the idea it was a specimen that came quite recently from the plant (April, to be clear).
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I think I found out why I had shutter firing trouble!
I found some info on the not-well-visited epsonrd1.co.uk website's forums.
One nigelt wrote the following:
This morning I figured I try it out and, lo' and behold!, it worked! It seems that turning off the screen does have an effect on the shutter's ability to fire immediately or not.
I found some info on the not-well-visited epsonrd1.co.uk website's forums.
One nigelt wrote the following:
This morning I figured I try it out and, lo' and behold!, it worked! It seems that turning off the screen does have an effect on the shutter's ability to fire immediately or not.
KEH
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RML,
You should check out the shutter problem thoroughly. My first RD1 had an intermittent failure to release that got worse over time (and was not linked to the active screen issue). Epson replaced my unit after the problem got bad enough for me to send it in.
Cheers,
Kirk
You should check out the shutter problem thoroughly. My first RD1 had an intermittent failure to release that got worse over time (and was not linked to the active screen issue). Epson replaced my unit after the problem got bad enough for me to send it in.
Cheers,
Kirk
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KEH said:
Kirk, my problem was not intermittent at all. For almost every shot I had to press twice, the second time hardly and more forcefully than the first attempt. Of course, I'll still be testing my findings a bit more thorough but I think I've found the cause.
Jim, you're suggestion that it could be the battery didn't work out. I was using the original Epson battery and had the same experience as with the third-party batteries.
"Remy, These problems can always be traced to Human Error". Yeah! The guy who wrote the firmware! The shutter release should do just that: operate the shutter!
Nikon learned that lesson on the D1x and D1h, on which the shutter release took a picture no matter what mode the camera was set to (except turned off). So in playback mode, or computer mode, the release still takes a picture. That was to correct a complaint on the original D1. Also on the D1, if you use single-frame mode with the monitor in review-mode, it takes forever for the camera to take a second shot. The camera does the processing to display the image, displays it, then stores to flash. It does not use the -big- buffer to take the shot when you press the release. Using "C"ontinuous mode gets you 4.5FPS, usually resulting in an unwanted second shot or too jerky movement on the release. I used the "Custom Menu Settings" to set the "C" mode to its slowest setting. That way I have 1 second to let up on the release, or press it multiple times as I want.
I suspect that the "programmer guy" for the RD-1 thought "Shutter pressed: if in review mode, stop processing current image and shutdown the monitor ELSE take picture. That way operator can use same button to terminate review mode with one press and take shot with second." I suspect firmware could be re-written to stop display processing of current image and and take the shot with one press of the shutter. Why not contact Epson and ask if the firmware can be modded?
Nikon learned that lesson on the D1x and D1h, on which the shutter release took a picture no matter what mode the camera was set to (except turned off). So in playback mode, or computer mode, the release still takes a picture. That was to correct a complaint on the original D1. Also on the D1, if you use single-frame mode with the monitor in review-mode, it takes forever for the camera to take a second shot. The camera does the processing to display the image, displays it, then stores to flash. It does not use the -big- buffer to take the shot when you press the release. Using "C"ontinuous mode gets you 4.5FPS, usually resulting in an unwanted second shot or too jerky movement on the release. I used the "Custom Menu Settings" to set the "C" mode to its slowest setting. That way I have 1 second to let up on the release, or press it multiple times as I want.
I suspect that the "programmer guy" for the RD-1 thought "Shutter pressed: if in review mode, stop processing current image and shutdown the monitor ELSE take picture. That way operator can use same button to terminate review mode with one press and take shot with second." I suspect firmware could be re-written to stop display processing of current image and and take the shot with one press of the shutter. Why not contact Epson and ask if the firmware can be modded?