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Laurie champlain (lchamplain71) 1 pts

May 25, 2009 12:13 PM

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Questions about the pentax k20d camera?

I currently purchased the k20d pentax and have some questions?
I tried to take picts through my live view screen and they won't auto focus like it should and let me.
When I turn my camera on sometimes and take a picture is showes it on my screen and then says image not saved and deletes it.
I have my flash set on auto flash and it won't pop up when I need it like in dark areas and when I pop it up my flash will flash a few times and won't let me take the picture.
Any help would be wonderful. Thank you

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Alan Schamber (alanschamber) 659 pts

May 25, 2009 1:10 PM

Laurie... how are you doing?

Through Live View, the K20's AF only works via the AF button, and it flips the mirror, AF, and then go back to live view. Not the best way... but in my case, I've used Live View only a couple times in the 13000 photos I've taken.

Unless you don't have a memory card in the camera, OR... you are using the digital preview, a photo should be saved. The thing is, that if you are using Live View, then it seems that you are not using digital preview, and I guess you are not shooting without a card, so I don't really know what's going on. But... just asking, did you upgrade to 1.03 version of the camera? It may have corrected a bug...

And flash... the K20 is not like the K200, or K100, that have an electronic way of raising the onboard flash. You have to do it manually, only. Why it doesn't let you take the picture, I can't really tell... unless it doesn't get a point in focus at all, that doesn't make sense.

Hope this is helpful,
Alan.

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Laurie champlain (lchamplain71) 1 pts

May 25, 2009 9:35 PM

Thank you for your information. I was sure the live view could be used as normal digital cameras and thats ok, cause I love this camera anyway. As far as the other problem with the saving of the picture, I don't know what's going on. I do have a memory card in it all the time and sometimes if I don't let it on for a minute and take a pict it says image not saved, but shows the pict I just took and then clears the screen. I don't know what that problem is. I did think the flash would come on automatically in dark areas, but thats ok, It's not a problem to do it myself but I went on a field trip in a cave with my daughter and had a time getting some picts cause it wouldn't take even turning the flash on myself. I might take it to a camera store here and have them help me with that issue.
Thank you for your help and have fun taking all those pictures, I KNOW I DO AND LOVE , LOVE MY CAMERA!!
LAURIE

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Alan Schamber (alanschamber) 659 pts

May 26, 2009 12:21 AM

The thing with raising automatically the flash, is that sometimes it will do it when you can't use the flash. That's why in advanced cameras, they keep it that way.
And about the unsaved photo... take the camera to a store, or wherever, just to make sure that it is working fine.

Enjoy your camera, and hope you suffer from LBA as I am now (Lens Buying Addiction).

Alan.

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