Firmware upgrade for K-7

http://www.pentax.jp/english/support/digital/k-7_s.html

Cheers Gwyn, certainly makes life a little easier!

Not sure if it's a coincidence or not, but now my rear dial doesn't work on my grip.

How strange. Maybe you should get in touch with Pentax about it?

Thanks Gwyn,

Danny, I will update mine shortly and let you know if I have the same issue.

No all is A-OK with the Grip + v1.01

Cheers Huw, think that confirms I have a faulty grip!

Probably explains why the camera kept changing aperture by itself over the weekend!

I don't know if it is the same issue but sometimes the rear e-dial on the grip of my K20D stops working as well.
Most of the times a power cycle does the job.
One time I had the remove and attach the grip to get it back to life again, maybe there was some dirt on the contacts.

Well, had the grip exchanged, seemed fine at the shop, then started playing up again at the zoo yesterday, so now it looks like it's the camera.

Undecided at the moment to exchange or refund, but I'm angry enough with it at the moment to have it fully boxed up waiting to go back as I just don't want to use it anymore.

That's such a pity as you really liked the loaner you had initially. Stick with it I expect it will all settle down and you'll love it again.

Mike

I understand your frustration Danny, as Mike says I would be inclined to stick with for a little while longer, if continues to misbehave then swap for a new replacement.
Beginning to wonder if I should really hang on to my K20D, although my K-7 hasn't missed a beat (fingers crossed).

You early adopters do the rest of us a big favour

Mike

Thanks for the support guys, and yes I really did fall in love with the loaner!

The trouble is do I want or need the aggro with replacing it? Having been the proud owner of the latest 17' Macbook Pro (which I think is the best laptop you can buy), then having it replaced due to a faulty graphics card (thanks Nvidia!), then the replacement having the same fault, then the manager of the Apple store saying there was no guarantee of getting a non faulty one, then getting a refund, I'm not sure I want to go through all of that again!

It's annoying and unfortunate, but the side of me that is just looking for an easier life tells me to get the refund and buy in a few months when hopefully any bugs would have been ironed out. It's not ideal, and to think a month or 2 ago I posted a picture of the K-7 + 31mm LTD on the 17" MacBook Pro asking if this was the perfect setup!

Well, at least I still have the lens!

Suppose the issues above demonstrate the downside to being an early adopter. It seems to me that every time i hear of a new electronics product being introduced then problems quickly follow. Perhaps the manufacturers need to spend a little bit more time on testing, rather than rushing to market and upsetting the early adopters, who quite often are loyal customers to the particular brand.

Davex.

I had a couple of glitches with my K-7 today, My battery meter was reading three bars, which indicates full, but I have been using it for a week so it wasn't fully charged, I switched the camera to movie mode and instantly got a battery depleted alert, and the camera shut down.

Switched it off for a couple of minutes and turned it back on to picture mode and got the 3 bars on the battery meter, Turned it back to movie mode and got the battery depleted again.

I put it on charge and took the memory card out and downloaded the pics to my PC, formatted the card in the PC and when the battery had finished charging, I put it back into the camera and switched it on, I then got a memory card error, I took it out and tried it in my K20, and it worked fine, Put it back in the K-7 and got the memory card error again.

I tried another card, same thing, memory card error.
I switched it off and went to work. When I got home I tried it again, It all appears to be working now including movie mode.

I'm not sure if the 2 issues are related, but I suspect the low battery power has had some sort of adverse effect on it. But it is worrying

My spare battery arrived from Chris at SRS today, so I have that on charge at the moment and will see how it goes.