LCD / Gridlines Flashing strange things

[savagecolor]

Hi Gang,

About two weeks ago I went out and purchased a new S2 primarily because of the exelent reviews and the discussions on this site.

As a professional wedding photographer my hope was to migrate from my current Hassy platform to a digital based arsenal. I shot with the S2 around the office and then took it along hoping to shoot candids during a wedding reception last night.

After about 20 shots in high res onto a 1GB microdrive, the camera began flashing all sorts of strange characters in the top LCD and the backlight on the top LCD and the function LCD would turn on and off at will. When looking through the viewfinder, the gridlines would turn on and off. Not all the grid lines, just bits and pieces of them.

Pulled batteries out and replaced them, used the "reset" function etc. but no luck. I was shooting in manual mode using a 200WS Lumedyne strobe connected through the PC terminal.

Any ideas??

Thanx,

Mark

[turbo-944]

Mark,

Check the sync voltage on the Lumadyne. It sounds like when the pack is cycling, or topping off there is excess voltage getting to the camera thru the sync. There have been several discussions about different flash units and their sync voltages. I don't remember what the max recommended for the camera is, but I think it was 10 volts or less. There have been several documented cases where older flash units, old 283's were often problems, can allow substantially more voltage to the sync plug. In some cases over 100 volts. If you have more than one unit, check them all to make sure that there aren't differences from one to the next.

If I remember a good recommendation was to use one of the Wein safesync units between flash and camera.

Hope this helps,

Dan.:confused: