K-5 continuous shooting problem

Whilst using my K-5 on Saturday at an airshow I experienced a problem using the continuous shooting mode...I was photographing an aircraft taking off and was panning succesfully firing off a few shots when the camera "froze" - the AF points remained lit in the viewfinder and the camera stopped. I turned the camera off but the LCD screen remained on. I had to remove the battery from the body itself and everything was back to normal.

I was using an Inov8 battery in the body which I had fully charged the night before and an Integral 16gb Class 10 SDHC Card.

Has anyone else experienced this problem before? Was it either the card or the battery that might have caused this?

Yes, a couple of times now.

I too was shooting in continuous and the camera behaviour was the same with the AF points remaining lit and everything frozen.

Cured it the way you did, by taking the battery out.

Was using Pentax battery (on 3 segments) & Sandisk Extreme III 8GB card.

I was unfazed the second time but would be a bit cross if it happenend on a crucial shot.

Regards,

Are you sure it wasn't just that the buffer was full?

I don't think so John, I'd only taken 4 images from when the aircraft started to taxi before it took off. This happened about halfway through the flying display and I had no problems beforehand.

Both Barrie and I suffered this about 3 weeks ago, and we mentioned it on here. He was at Beamish and I was at The Farnes

Any ideas as to what might have caused it?

Haven't a clue Rob. Happened one on my K-x, and hasn't happened since. So, I'm just hoping its the same with the K-5.

It was raining, as it was with Barrie, but I don't expect that to be relevant.

Thanks Alan & John, fingers crossed it won't happen to me again.

Last time happend to me single shot middle of field. Maybe myserious lay lines that affect k5s or maybe just another fault seems to happen to a lot of people

Always carry a CH radiator with you to earth yourself on. You'll be fine