The 'paranoid' on DPReview have already responded. In-box configurations are very expensive to change. A firmware rev change is an in-box configuration change. All K10Ds ship with v1.0 firmware other than the special edition GP units.
Improvements to manufacturing processes do not imply an in-box configuration change. G On Feb 15, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Mark Erickson wrote: > So I decided to purchase an "end of life" K10D before they're all > gone. It > arrived, and it has Firmware Version 1.00 on it! Looks like I got a > "beginning of life" item. I suppose I could just flash V1.3 from > the Pentax > website, but what about hardware manufacturing defects corrected as > Pentax > debugged the production line, etc. ? > > Any advice from the paranoid out there? > > I posted the same question over at DPReview, so we'll see what the > paranoid > over there say.... > -- 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.
