Canon 5D2 question

The other day I was out shooting with a fairly low battery supply.
After having read the manual, I supposed that the display would blink
when it got low enough to be problematic. It did not.

Instead, Live View quit, and shortly afterward the camera shut down
displaying ERR with no number. So I shut it off, finished the shoot
with another body, and took it home to recharge the batteries (in a
battery grip there are two...).

After recharging the batteries to the green light level, I reinstalled
them and the camera came alive with no apparent problems. But then, I
discovered that every time I turned the camera off, the Live View
setting would revert to default (disabled), which now means I have to
re-enable it every time I turn the camera on.

After reading the manual several times, looking in several places, I
found nothing about settings reverting to default after battery
discharge. So, the question:

Has this happened to any other 5D2 user? Specifically, 1) the camera
turning off before the battery is out of charge according to the
indicator, and 2) the Live View setting being disabled after every
camera shut-off, requiring resetting to "enabled" every time the camera
is used?

Can anyone tell me what I'm missing here?

Longfellow

On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:49:34 -0600, Longfellow wrote:
: The other day I was out shooting with a fairly low battery supply.
: After having read the manual, I supposed that the display would blink
: when it got low enough to be problematic. It did not.
:
: Instead, Live View quit, and shortly afterward the camera shut down
: displaying ERR with no number. So I shut it off, finished the shoot
: with another body, and took it home to recharge the batteries (in a
: battery grip there are two...).
:
: After recharging the batteries to the green light level, I reinstalled
: them and the camera came alive with no apparent problems. But then, I
: discovered that every time I turned the camera off, the Live View
: setting would revert to default (disabled), which now means I have to
: re-enable it every time I turn the camera on.
:
: After reading the manual several times, looking in several places, I
: found nothing about settings reverting to default after battery
: discharge. So, the question:
:
: Has this happened to any other 5D2 user? Specifically, 1) the camera
: turning off before the battery is out of charge according to the
: indicator, and 2) the Live View setting being disabled after every
: camera shut-off, requiring resetting to "enabled" every time the camera
: is used?
:
: Can anyone tell me what I'm missing here?

Can we assume you're up to date with all the firmware revs?

Bob

"Longfellow" wrote:

2) the Live View setting being disabled after every
camera shut-off, requiring resetting to "enabled" every time the camera
is used?

This would be normal operation, I'd think. Most SLR users will think of live
view as being a special purpose function, and so want the camera to default
to normal viewing.

Is pushing one button once all that hard???

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David J. Littleboy
Tokyo, Japan

In article , David J.
Littleboy wrote:

"Longfellow" wrote:

2) the Live View setting being disabled after every
camera shut-off, requiring resetting to "enabled" every time the camera
is used?

This would be normal operation, I'd think. Most SLR users will think of live
view as being a special purpose function, and so want the camera to default
to normal viewing.

Is pushing one button once all that hard???

Nah, he probably means the feature defaults to the button being totally
disabled. He's probably having to climb into menu settings 2 È Live
view where you may take your pick of disabled, stills only and stills
and movie and pushing it off disabled every time the camera is switched
back on.

FWIW I /think/ I got an unnumbered 'ERR' on mine once, but I don't
think it was exhausted battery. And live view comes back how I left it.
I think I did it by yanking the CF card while it was catching up
putting a movie on it.

PS New firmware rumoured any day now. Movie improvements mostly.
24 25 and 29.97 fps and manual audio levels. Yay!

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"Elliott Roper" wrote:
David J. Littleboy wrote:
"Longfellow" wrote:

2) the Live View setting being disabled after every
camera shut-off, requiring resetting to "enabled" every time the camera
is used?

This would be normal operation, I'd think. Most SLR users will think of
live
view as being a special purpose function, and so want the camera to
default
to normal viewing.

Is pushing one button once all that hard???

Nah, he probably means the feature defaults to the button being totally
disabled.

Ah, that would hurt.

He's probably having to climb into menu settings 2 È Live
view where you may take your pick of disabled, stills only and stills
and movie and pushing it off disabled every time the camera is switched
back on.

Sounds painful. I can barely even find that menu setting.

Here's the latest firmware press release that you were probably referring
to. The firmware is not up on the Canon site yet, though.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/1003/10...iifirmware.asp

--
David J. Littleboy
Tokyo, Japan

Longfellow wrote:
The other day I was out shooting with a fairly low battery supply.
After having read the manual, I supposed that the display would blink
when it got low enough to be problematic. It did not.
....
Can anyone tell me what I'm missing here?

Are you using Canon batteries or some off brand?

--
Ray Fischer

"David J. Littleboy" wrote in message
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"Elliott Roper" wrote:
David J. Littleboy wrote:
"Longfellow" wrote:

2) the Live View setting being disabled after every
camera shut-off, requiring resetting to "enabled" every time the
camera
is used?
............
Here's the latest firmware press release that you were probably referring
to. The firmware is not up on the Canon site yet, though.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/1003/10...iifirmware.asp

--
David J. Littleboy

Thanks David! I'll be on the lookout for that one.
Marcel