Attention Pentax Engineers: If you're reading this, you should be ASHAMED for letting a product with this failure mode go out the door. ASHAMED. Designing any kind of locking mechanism that can break in a "locked" position is just plain bad engineering.
--Mark Paul Stenquist pnstenquist at comcast.net >Yes, it's true. I mounted the 540 flash on the K10D this afternoon in >an effort to shoot some birdies, and now it won't come off. I tried a >little bit of WD40 ( a light lubricant), lots of tugging and pulling. >I'm guessing that a screw has come loose on the hot shoe and is >locking it in place. Any ideas? I'm thinking I'm going to have to >send camera and flash to Pentax. A pisser. >Paul -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
