Pentax ist DS: manual white balance buggy?

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Correction: The relevant pages in the manual are 113-114 (not 115-116)
as in my initial posting.

B.

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"Ben" <benmillernews@hotmail.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
1118673502.870482.295830@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
> I today chanced upon the first misbehaviour of my (otherwise
> immaculate) DS: Trying to get to adjust manual (aka custom)
> white-balance, I followed the instructions (p.115-116 in the
> user-manual):
>
>
> 1. pressed Fn button (On the LCD screen, Fn Menu appeared).
> 2. pressed left arrow on the 4 way controller (WB Menu appeared).
> 3. Using the down arrow, moved all the way down to select 'Manual'. (an
> 'Adjust' option appeared to the right of the word 'Manual').
> 4. pressed the right arrow on the 4 way controller to get to the above
> mentioned 'adjust' option.
>
>
> Here, according to the manual, a screen was supposed to show saying
> "Point camera at subject; Press the shutter release button".
> Instead, the LCD screen turns off (goes black). According to the
> user-manual the interaction with the user was supposed to continue
> until an 'OK' or 'NG' are displayed on the LCD. However, as I
> mentioned, the LCD goes out.
>
>
> The subsequent press on the shutter release does sound and feel
> different than an ordinary shot (e.g. no auto-focus action as far as I
> can tell), suggesting that the adjustment is taking place after all.
> But then the resulting shots are quite poor colour-wise. It looks as
> though the camera made no colour adjustments, or perhaps bad ones.
> (Then again I can't be 100% sure about that).
>
>
> Could kind DS owners check whether their camera behaves the same way?
> Do you get LCD messages through to the 'OK' or 'NG' message step?
>
>
> I updated the firmware to 1.02, - with no change in behaviour.
> My RAM is a 1 gb Kingston unit.
>
>
> Thanks very much in advance for any help.
>
>
> Ben
>
On my istDs (firmware 1.02), when the manual white balance icon is selected
(it appears in a green frame),
I press the right arrow of the 4-way controller and I am then asked to point
and shoot at a white subject.
Jean.

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Ben <benmillernews@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Jean,
> Thanks for taking the time to check your DS and to reply.
> The issue has been resolved over in rec.photo.digital.slr:

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