I suppose this is an appropriate time to say that your 7 day ban has become permanent.

I really think you should settle down and stop doing this Tim. This is not the way to discuss something. Why not look at it again in the morning and put things back into perspective?

I'm more than happy to look at it all again in 7 days, but not if you continue like this.

This is much easier when stood next to you, but without that it's hard to visualise what you might have happening.

When you make the exposure, is the eyepiece of the camera covered? I ask because light entering the eyepiece will significantly affect the exposure reading, especially in dark conditions.

Just for the record, Tim was only asked to move the link, not to avoid posting it. I don't have anything more to add to that, we can see the response for ourselves.

Thank you, but not really a wise thing to do is it?

I do try to keep moderation confidential, basically to avoid and naming and shaming of individuals. Everything is, where possible, conducted by PM and usually resolved without any particular hassle.

Our warning system is to request something be moved/deleted/ etc. as required, followed by formal warnings where rules are flouted deliberately. Eventually a 7 day ban, and more eventually a permanent ban if that is necessary. This process can take some time, or be instant for our spammer visitors.

Moderation discussion in public may be removed as per the T&Cs and also please bear in mind that returning under a new guise to further flout the rules is specifically forbidden. If this continues beyond that, although it has never happened, further steps can be taken.

99.9% of members here will be totally unaware of the warning system.

Some examples would help us be sure, but it may be that you are being a bit premature and not waiting for the camera to do its "dark frame subtraction" before it allows you to take another shot. What this means is it does the exposure and then a second dark exposure to show the noise pattern. The noise is then subtracted from your image to clean it up.

With a 30 second exposure, for example, expect a further 30 seconds for this to happen.

This isn't the place to discuss this, but Tim won't be around for 7 days. After that, hopefully he will be back and all will be well again.

Lithium Ion batteries are not supposed to have a memory, so in theory we could top up as required. However, I'm not convinced this is 100% true, so I tend to allow the battery to get some real use before recharging.

In practice, this means that I get a low battery indication in the field, change batteries when it stays low even after a rest, and then swap to the spare. The exhauseted battery gets a recharge after I return home.

It's never been much of a problems as these batteries seem to have a lot of power in them.

A couple of things I think - batteries do need a few recharge cycles to gain their full capacity, so I would expect that this will improve after a short while.

The second thing is it will depend very much on use. It's new, you're doing a lot of intense viewing, playing, processing, etc., so it will put a drain on the battery.

In the sort of use that I give the cameras, basically just shooting images, usually without flash and with a minimum of reviewing then the Pentax figures have been realistic. It only took a couple of charges for everything to be up to par.

Hope that helps!

Thanks, all OK now.

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