A700 Rear Control Dial Problems
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:03 am
Hi all...long time lurker, first time poster...
My A700 has started to exhibit the following issues with the rear control dial:
- one or two clicks results in multiple activations, such as the equivalent of 5, 6, 7 clicks
- quick, rapid thumb scrolling, such as reviewing photos or quickly changing settings sometimes causes jumps in the settings, sometimes in the opposite direction I'm scrolling. (For example, say I'm increasing exposure compensation, and I quickly scroll the dial to the right, it may actually cause a reduction in exposure, in other words, the "wrong" way)
- problem is intermittent, infrequent, and not always repeatable...basically happens whenever it feels like it
So I'm just curious if anyone else has experienced this, and/or had this repaired. I would assume that worst case it's simply a defective scroll wheel, and a relatively simple repair to replace it. My concern is that it's intermittent and if I send it in for repair, the technician won't notice any problems and it won't get fixed, although I suppose I could just pay to have it replaced regardless...
Any thoughts appreciated, thanks, Paul
My A700 has started to exhibit the following issues with the rear control dial:
- one or two clicks results in multiple activations, such as the equivalent of 5, 6, 7 clicks
- quick, rapid thumb scrolling, such as reviewing photos or quickly changing settings sometimes causes jumps in the settings, sometimes in the opposite direction I'm scrolling. (For example, say I'm increasing exposure compensation, and I quickly scroll the dial to the right, it may actually cause a reduction in exposure, in other words, the "wrong" way)
- problem is intermittent, infrequent, and not always repeatable...basically happens whenever it feels like it
So I'm just curious if anyone else has experienced this, and/or had this repaired. I would assume that worst case it's simply a defective scroll wheel, and a relatively simple repair to replace it. My concern is that it's intermittent and if I send it in for repair, the technician won't notice any problems and it won't get fixed, although I suppose I could just pay to have it replaced regardless...
Any thoughts appreciated, thanks, Paul