A7r screen and viewfinder went black, today!

[m_driscoll]

I was out in the garden shooting with the A7r that I picked up a week and a half ago and the EVF and screen went totally black? Couldn't get the menu, or, anything else to come up. Changed batteries, put a different SD card in, and sacrificed a chicken, but, nothing.

At my camera store, they tried (without the chicken) to get it going. Nothing (although that's usually when the problem that you were having doesn't evidence itself). They hadn't seen anything like this before. Gave me a new one and they're sending that one back to Sony.

BTW: it was still taking pictures when the screen was black.

Anybody had any problems like this with their A7/A7r?

Cheers, Matt

 

[reflectedlights]

I did have a strange clitch yesterday. Was using it for sports, and the screen kept flashing on and off. Changed batteries..same thing. Shut off wait 30 secs and all seemed back to normal. Not sure what happened, but it seemed to be bouncing back and forth between EVF and screen when I wasn't holding it near my face. And this is something I have noticed...in the date time...I keep loosing an hour. Anyone else seen internal clock issues?

 

[Cindy Flood]

I got my A7r from HK, before they were available in US. I had a charged battery waiting for it when it arrived. I tried shooting, but kept having a problem with it asking me to reset the clock. I put it on the corded charger for the night. My gut feeling is that if you are just putting your batteries on an external charger, you may have to actually hook the camera to the corded charger once in a while to charge that internal battery. I have never done it again, but if one starts to have trouble with the clock, I'd try that first before I sent it in for service. Matt's problem was probably a different story.

 

[reflectedlights]

Cindy thanks for that..Probably is the issue..I'll give that a try.

 

[Guy Mancuso]

Cindy just maybe correct here and certainly would not hurt at all to charge the internal. Dang I better try it myself as well as I never done this

 

[m_driscoll]

Cindy: That's probably a good cautionary idea. I did have it on the USB charger for about an hour before I went to the camera store. Still nothing.

Cheers, Matt

 

[Knorp]

Now, I've no solution to this issue, just saying I never used internal charging and I have my A7r since last year November 22.
As with other cameras I suppose the internal battery here too will be charged by the main battery.

Kind regards.

 

[reflectedlights]

Now, I've no solution to this issue, just saying I never used internal charging and I have my A7r since last year November 22.
As with other cameras I suppose the internal battery here too will be charged by the main battery.

Kind regards.

That's what I assumed.....it will be interesting if it does solve the issue.