I finally received my erratic-shutter LX back from Pentax Europe with the erratic shutter still fully in evidence. I took it in to Pentax UK in slough and confronted the Technical Supervisor once agtain, he tested the camera and confirmed the behaviour he then said there's nothing we can do, Pentax Europe is the end of the line. He offered me an 'upgrade' to an MZ-S or a refund. I didn't even ask what the upgrade offer was but simply accepted the refund.
I have used my current excess of LX's to run some tests and 50% of them have this behaviour and 3200 ISO on Auto, there is no rhyme or reason that I can figure. The oldest and the latest models have the fault/bug so it's not serial number related. The guys on the PDML ran the test and the result was roughly 50% One guy was dismayed that all three of his behaved this way, another Italian member had four LX's and none of his misbehaved. I now simply use the camera on manual if I'm on 3200 or 1600 (the fault can occur on 1600 occasionally) or I'll use a camera that doesn't display this behaviour. It remains a mystery. This camera went to Harrow technical and was kept for 3/4 months whilst Robin swapped CPU's, ASA resistors, timing switches etc. etc. then he gave it to a colleague... no joy. It then went to Pentax UK and then to Pentax UK again, and then to Pentax UK yet again... they sent it to Pentax Europe... still not fixed. It works very well and has had all sorts of parts replaced but what is it that causes this problem? Surely if they systematically replaced every part in the camera they'd find it... but they've near as damn it done that. Dunno Anton __________________________________________________________________________ Freeserve AnyTime - Go online whenever you want for just �6.99 a month for your first 3 months, that's HALF PRICE! And then it's just �13.99 a month after that. For more information visit http://www.freeserve.com/time/ or call free on 0800 970 8890
