I continued to have problems with this today, but I am narrowing down what's happening immediately prior to the camera freezing up with an ERR message.
Due to what I saw, I don't think this is specifically a mirror or shutter problem although it's related to both of those things. It happened again on my very first shot. Please keep in mind I switched to Center Weighted Metering a while back and love getting more consistent metered images than I got with Matrix Metering. But I'm wondering if something is wrong with the metering.
When I turned on my camera today, I glanced at the settings knowing I used the same settings outside yesterday. Everything looked good, but a split second before I pressed the shutter button, I noticed the shutter speed was flashing at 1/4000". It shouldn't have been quite that fast although I do prefer using a fast shutter speed. When I composed the image, the shutter speed was a little slower than 1/4000", but it changed and locked up on me immediately before pressing the button.
A number of other images I framed up seemed fine until a split second before I pressed the shutter button. Those too suddenly indicated a flashing 1/4000" shutter speed even though that isn't what I saw when I framed up the shot. I even lowered my ISO and still saw the 1/4000" flashing inside the viewfinder at times (but not every time). In one photo, it is quite underexposed because the shutter fired at 1/4000" when it was supposed to be slower.
But because I"m seeing this immediately prior to pressing the shutter button (and I wind up NOT pressing it), does it sound like it could be the meter, or do you think it is some other type of electrical error?
Any ideas?
The camera is now set for Matrix Metering so I'll see if this continues to happen.
Due to what I saw, I don't think this is specifically a mirror or shutter problem although it's related to both of those things. It happened again on my very first shot. Please keep in mind I switched to Center Weighted Metering a while back and love getting more consistent metered images than I got with Matrix Metering. But I'm wondering if something is wrong with the metering.
When I turned on my camera today, I glanced at the settings knowing I used the same settings outside yesterday. Everything looked good, but a split second before I pressed the shutter button, I noticed the shutter speed was flashing at 1/4000". It shouldn't have been quite that fast although I do prefer using a fast shutter speed. When I composed the image, the shutter speed was a little slower than 1/4000", but it changed and locked up on me immediately before pressing the button.
A number of other images I framed up seemed fine until a split second before I pressed the shutter button. Those too suddenly indicated a flashing 1/4000" shutter speed even though that isn't what I saw when I framed up the shot. I even lowered my ISO and still saw the 1/4000" flashing inside the viewfinder at times (but not every time). In one photo, it is quite underexposed because the shutter fired at 1/4000" when it was supposed to be slower.
But because I"m seeing this immediately prior to pressing the shutter button (and I wind up NOT pressing it), does it sound like it could be the meter, or do you think it is some other type of electrical error?
The camera is now set for Matrix Metering so I'll see if this continues to happen.