Horrible EX1 problems / bugs -help!

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lukeflegg

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Hello
I used to love my EX1 and now feel a little bit less ecstatic...

If anyone can shed any light/suggestions on the following it'd be great:

MEDIA / BATTERY NEAR FULL BUG
This is surely a bug;
When there's less than 6 mins media or less than 31(?) mins battery, the scroll wheel and joystick stop working so I can't change the shutter speed/gain/etc via menu

FOCUS
I cannot focus anywhere close to infinity when I'm zoomed in..
When fully zoomed in (particularly on f1.9) it's almost a joke; the background is like soup while objects 50ft away are perfectly sharp. Macro is off.
It also occasionally drifts visibly out when zoomed in and wide open (DOF indicator noticably slips)


Help! I'm really relying on it at the moment to shoot a huge documentary project in across england on young people and the education system.

Thank : )
 
Your focus problem looks like a lens malfunction. You might try getting in the factory menu to calibrate / set backfocus.

Considering your first problem: that sounds like just a bug... maybe a firmware upgrade? Or maybe just a firmware re-upload fixes the problem?

As for your upcoming shoot: if it's workable the way it is now, fiddle with it later. You wouldn't be the first one getting from bad to worse on a very inconvenient moment :)
 
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