More shooting, more failures. This morning I was shooting about 20 images in -10C with a fresh warm battery before it failed. Then I replaced with a fresh warm battery, but failure continued.
I think what it has problems with is writing to the card. After rebooting it said "Insert disk" on the first screen, without the beep though. Regardless of battery and remove reinsert card, rebooting etc it did not start working. So I gave up, packed up and walked towards home.
But 15 minutes later I packed it up again, started it up and then it worked for a while, but after a few images I noted that the green lamp did not stop blinking, the interface was locked but I could still take a couple of images before it changed to blinking red and I could not shoot more. I'm assuming that what was happening is that it was again failing to write to the card, but the imaging module has a buffer so you can shoot a couple of extra images but when the buffer is full and write problems still persist the back is locked.
I rebooted and then it start working again and this time it continued working, I could not repeat the error. I was now in the sun though so the gear was becoming warmer too.
It's a bit messy all this because it happens often enough to cause trouble, frustration and lost images, but is very hard to reproduce when you want to test.
I'm now making fresh formatting of a number of CF cards to have more to test with when I get the next failure. Perhaps it is a dodgy CF card. Can CF cards become dodgy from cold?
I'll format on a windows PC using this guide:
http://www.phaseone.com/en/search/article.aspx?articleid=1542&languageid=1
I think what it has problems with is writing to the card. After rebooting it said "Insert disk" on the first screen, without the beep though. Regardless of battery and remove reinsert card, rebooting etc it did not start working. So I gave up, packed up and walked towards home.
But 15 minutes later I packed it up again, started it up and then it worked for a while, but after a few images I noted that the green lamp did not stop blinking, the interface was locked but I could still take a couple of images before it changed to blinking red and I could not shoot more. I'm assuming that what was happening is that it was again failing to write to the card, but the imaging module has a buffer so you can shoot a couple of extra images but when the buffer is full and write problems still persist the back is locked.
I rebooted and then it start working again and this time it continued working, I could not repeat the error. I was now in the sun though so the gear was becoming warmer too.
It's a bit messy all this because it happens often enough to cause trouble, frustration and lost images, but is very hard to reproduce when you want to test.
I'm now making fresh formatting of a number of CF cards to have more to test with when I get the next failure. Perhaps it is a dodgy CF card. Can CF cards become dodgy from cold?
I'll format on a windows PC using this guide:
http://www.phaseone.com/en/search/article.aspx?articleid=1542&languageid=1