Camera on, but switch off?

[Swampy]

I almost forgot about this one on Sunday. I packed my camera up into my bag and put it in the car. I got to where I was going and pulled the camera out of the bag to switch lenses and the display was up with low/2.8, etc. I'm like, huh. I left it on. Looked at the power switch to turn it off before switching lenses, and it was already off, but the display was still up showing me shutter and aperture and what not.

Turned the camera "on" and then off and it turned off.

Anyway, just a strange occurence that I thought I'd report here.

Bryan

[bjnicholls]

I've seen at least one other report of this happening. Perhaps there's a bug in the firmware that sometimes kicks in. It may be best to watch and wait until the memory is done writing and check to see if the camera is really powered down.

[Swampy]

Originally posted by bjnicholls
It may be best to watch and wait until the memory is done writing and check to see if the camera is really powered down.

I had the camera out on a tripod Saturday afternoon to copy pictures over from it via the firewire interface. It was plugged in with the AC adatpter with the CR123's out. I copied the pictures over Saturday afternoon and when it was done, I deleted the whole directory structure on the card, stopped the camera (in Windos 2000) after Windows finished deleting it all, then turned it off.

Next morning, I unplugged the firewire cable, the power cable, and inserted CR123's. Put in my bag. And the rest is history...

It was off when I put it in my bag, and there was nothing writing to the card. Pretty much no reason at all for the camera to be on with the switch off. I'm wondering if maybe some button press actually turns the camera on in some strange mode. Like, leave the camera off and press and hold the "light" button on the right side of the camera for 30 minutes and the camera should come on on "the mode" ---Just an example here, not saying this works---.

[bjnicholls]

Weird. I don't have any better theory, but I'd call Fuji for sure if anything else like it happens.

[Swampy]

Originally posted by bjnicholls
Weird. I don't have any better theory, but I'd call Fuji for sure if anything else like it happens.

I'm actually getting the camera replaced in 4-6 weeks with a completely new S2, hope this one makes it that long, not that this camera is all that right now. Auto focus on this one, I've decided won't work for me. When I manual focus, just in front of what I really want in focus, the real subject comes out clear and sharp.

I'll keep an eye on it and see if it duplicates itself though.

[ali]

I "bumped" the power switch a few times because it sticks out of the body too much. What happened to me in a few situations is the power turned ON. But the switch did not lock in the ON position and flipped back to OFF, which left the power ON. Quarks like this could only happen with digital power switches.