Having nothing else to do tonight, I loaded up my camera bag with both Pentax bodies and some lenses to get some photos at the annual Riverside Festival of lights, planning on playing with shutter drag, and having enough gear that I could do pretty much anything I'd likely want to (didn't bring a flash though, welcome to the 21st century when I forget to bring a flash for night photography). The plan was mostly for shooting with the 18-250 on the K3 and the 15-30 on the K1. I got downtown, set up the K3 in bulb, tried to take some pictures, and it just didn't work. I'd click the shutter, everything would go black, nothing would happen until i cycled the power. There was some weirdness in that the shutter period would change if I twiddled the front dial. I was able to get some photos in M, with the shutter speed set to about a second, but I gave up and put the 18-250 on the K-1, put the K-1 in crop mode, saw the "bu" in the viewfinder and everything was great until I tried to grab a snap on the hike back to my car, when the K-1 had the same problem. Long story short, if you are in "bulb" pressing the green button will take it in and out of some other mode, I think it may be for shutter periods longer than a second. d'Oh! I did RTFM, many times, but that detail fell out of my brain. __ Larry Colen from Lothlorien lrc@red4est.com

Here are a couple of PESOs from tonight's play: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/54997128534/in/album-72177720331028895 https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/54997168185/in/album-72177720331028895 and the whole set for those who are interested https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72177720331028895/ > On Dec 20, 2025, at 10:35 PM, Larry Colen <lrc@red4est.com> wrote: > > Having nothing else to do tonight, I loaded up my camera bag with both Pentax bodies and some lenses to get some photos at the annual Riverside Festival of lights, planning on playing with shutter drag, and having enough gear that I could do pretty much anything I'd likely want to (didn't bring a flash though, welcome to the 21st century when I forget to bring a flash for night photography). The plan was mostly for shooting with the 18-250 on the K3 and the 15-30 on the K1. > > I got downtown, set up the K3 in bulb, tried to take some pictures, and it just didn't work. I'd click the shutter, everything would go black, nothing would happen until i cycled the power. There was some weirdness in that the shutter period would change if I twiddled the front dial. I was able to get some photos in M, with the shutter speed set to about a second, but I gave up and put the 18-250 on the K-1, put the K-1 in crop mode, saw the "bu" in the viewfinder and everything was great until I tried to grab a snap on the hike back to my car, when the K-1 had the same problem. > > Long story short, if you are in "bulb" pressing the green button will take it in and out of some other mode, I think it may be for shutter periods longer than a second. > > d'Oh! > > I did RTFM, many times, but that detail fell out of my brain. > > __ > Larry Colen from Lothlorien > lrc@red4est.com > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. > __ Larry Colen from Lothlorien lrc@red4est.com