robcole
24th of March 2005 (Thu), 10:28
Hi all,
I recently picked up an EOS 300D and a Magicstor 2.2 GB microdrive. The camera has been awesome, taking some fantastic pictures. However, I've hit a couple of teething problems and was hoping someone on here could help.
First, I'm having an issue when turning the camera off and then back on. What happens is that I take some pictures and then either turn the camera of or it turns itself off if I've left it alone for long enough. The problem comes when I then turn the camera back on. Nothing happens. To get the camera running again I have to turn it off, remove the CF card, close the CF door, turn the camera on (it now starts up fine), then turn it off again, insert the card and then turn the camera back on.
Any ideas what's going on, and more importantly, how to fix it? Its doing my head in, and all of the extra opening, closing, removing and inserting is probably not doing much for the life of the camera or the microdrive.
The second thing is that if I leave the camera alone with the microdrive in it for a while, the battery is flat when I come back to it. Overnight is a typical example. I take it that the microdrive is consuming power keeping the disk spinning. Any idea if I can stop this and so save the battery life? I know I can always take it out of the camera but I'd prefer a better solution.
Thanks all,
Rob
I recently picked up an EOS 300D and a Magicstor 2.2 GB microdrive. The camera has been awesome, taking some fantastic pictures. However, I've hit a couple of teething problems and was hoping someone on here could help.
First, I'm having an issue when turning the camera off and then back on. What happens is that I take some pictures and then either turn the camera of or it turns itself off if I've left it alone for long enough. The problem comes when I then turn the camera back on. Nothing happens. To get the camera running again I have to turn it off, remove the CF card, close the CF door, turn the camera on (it now starts up fine), then turn it off again, insert the card and then turn the camera back on.
Any ideas what's going on, and more importantly, how to fix it? Its doing my head in, and all of the extra opening, closing, removing and inserting is probably not doing much for the life of the camera or the microdrive.
The second thing is that if I leave the camera alone with the microdrive in it for a while, the battery is flat when I come back to it. Overnight is a typical example. I take it that the microdrive is consuming power keeping the disk spinning. Any idea if I can stop this and so save the battery life? I know I can always take it out of the camera but I'd prefer a better solution.
Thanks all,
Rob