Help! Optio 750Z trouble

[Zorrolf]

Hi Everyone,

Not too long I've bought a Pentax Optio 750Z and I am quite happy with it. (After the firmware update 1.01!!!). A few days ago I came across a very strange error.
When shooting a movie at 320x240 resolution, full color, 30 fps, TIMELAPSE = OFF I get a really bizarre behaviour. These settings let you use the digital zoom.

When zooming in and out the speed of the movie sometimes switches into timelapse mode!!!! (I hope I make sense)... for example you'd make a movie of a ticking second hand of a watch. Without the zoom you'd see it move every second. Zooming in all the way still the same only bigger ;-) Then you zoom out and at one position of the zoom the hand would move 5 times in a second or so (time lapsed) until you either zoom in or out. This doesn't make sense whatsoever since setting Timelapse is set to OFF.

This appears to be a problem with these exact settings. All other settings 15fps or 640x480 are ok.

Could somebody with a Pentax 750Z please try this out? Maybe it's just my camera? Or is it a firmware bug? (BTW. I'm using a sandisk ultra II 512 MB)

Thanks a lot and merry Christmas,

Zorrolf

[ChrisC]

Could somebody with a Pentax 750Z please try this out? Maybe it's just my camera? Or is it a firmware bug? (BTW. I'm using a sandisk ultra II 512 MB)

I just tried it with my 750Z using the 1.00 firmware and had no problems that I could see. I'll be upgrading my firmware in the next couple of days, so I'll try it again then and let you know the result.

Cheers,
Chris

[Zorrolf]

That'd be great.

Thanks

[ChrisC]

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you on this - just got married, and these things tend to take precedence over playing with expensive toys (in my wife's eyes, especially!) :)

I updated my firmware to v1.01 and tried the movie mode again, and I have not had any problems that I can see. I did a few tests with the settings that you said (320x240, 30fps, full colour, timelapse off) and went through the entire zoom range, but it never missed a beat for me.

So it looks like the problem you're mentioning might be specific to your camera. If I come across this at any point in future I'll let you know, but I wasn't able to reproduce it on mine at this stage.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Chris

[Zorrolf]

Thanks a lot Chris.
I appreciate you getting back...

Congratulations on your wedding.

Zorrolf