Too bad you fixed it <grin> - there goes your K10D. -- Bruce
Saturday, September 8, 2007, 1:48:23 PM, you wrote: CR> On Sep 8, 2007, at 11:29, Bob Sullivan wrote: >> Charles, >> >> Jiggle with that pin/door you replaced. >> CR> Nope, that wasn't it. CR> I took the leap, and following instructions on this page: CR> http://www.xdeltax.com/tutirmodding/index.html CR> I took the shell off of the camera and determined that there are NO CR> circuits inside the camera near the grip - just the batteries. There CR> is a complex relationship between the top shell, the switches that CR> are mounted on it (shutter, DOF preview, exp. compensation) and the CR> circuits that they contact (which are on the body). CR> After disassembling the camera, then reassembling it without the CR> handgrip panel, I was able to see that the only thing that could have CR> been affected by the way I was pushing on the body of the camera was CR> the top power/shutter/DOF switch (and the way it interacts with the CR> circuit boards (brushes on the top panel, circuits that they contact CR> mounted on the body). I couldn't get the camera to fail with that CR> panel off. CR> Then I reassembled everything, and it works perfectly. I cannot get CR> the power to blink out again. So.... something was loose or out of CR> whack and the disassembly/reassembly process seems to have aligned CR> all of the parts back where they needed to be. CR> Whew! CR> I took some pictures, but this guy whose website I referenced took CR> some already. Here you can see that there are no circuits/panels/ CR> ANYTHING next to the batteries on the right side of the camera: CR> CR> http://www.tfh-berlin.de/~s22202/xdeltax/tutirmodding/IMGP1648.jpg CR> CR> http://www.tfh-berlin.de/~s22202/xdeltax/tutirmodding/IMGP1656.jpg CR> ..and this picture just looks horrific! CR> CR> http://www.tfh-berlin.de/~s22202/xdeltax/tutirmodding/IMGP1672.jpg CR> -Charles CR> -- CR> Charles Robinson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] CR> Minneapolis, MN CR> http://charles.robinsontwins.org -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
