The other day, I was out on my bicycle looking for some Japanese maple trees with red, yellow and orange leaves. I wanted to shoot some close-ups of some leaves with the morning sunlight in the background with brightly lit leaves shot with the flash. But to my surprise, I was unable to shoot anything with the flash.

I was able to shoot pictures with the flash down. But when I pressed the button to use the flash, the flash would pop up, but I was unable to shoot anything. The camera wouldn’t snap off a shot. I put the flash back down, and it worked. But with the flash up, it wouldn’t shoot.

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So I reset the camera to see if something in the camera was awry, but it didn’t make a difference. Luckily, I wasn’t very far from home. It was almost time to head out for church anyway, so I didn’t fool with the camera anymore and just called it a day with the camera.

My camera is now in the shop getting repaired. Hopefully, it won’t cost more than what my insurance covers, up to 12,000 yen since I’ve had the camera for over a year now.

I’ve shot somewhere around 60,000 photos since I’ve owned the camera. That’s one of the reasons I had to buy a new hard drive a few weeks ago! I’ve shot so many photos with the camera, I had run out of space on my computer.

Oh well, I’m glad I had insurance on the camera. I hope the button is the problem and nothing else! Anyone have any other problems with their Pentax *ist cameras?