Yes, same thought here. Maybe a little drop of denatured alcohol on the cloth.
It's certainly possible that it does need some sort of service. But likely it is simply either just a little dirty or you are noticing these quirks more. I don't abuse my camera equipment, but I don't treat it particularly specially either. It seems to fare pretty well regardless. Godfrey On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:20 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > Unless they are visibly crudded up, I'd just polish them gently with a > microfiber cloth at first. > > Boris Liberman wrote: >> Godfrey, in a nutshell you're telling me, that my K10D is perfectly >> normal and that except, may be cleaning (last cleaned by local >> service >> almost a year ago), it requires no special attention at all. >> >> That's what I've been thinking but this is the very first time since >> 2002 (when I bought my first AF film body by Pentax) the AF of any >> camera I ever held in my hands behaved that strangely. In fact, my >> simple ZX-L (MZ-6) still works perfectly well in all regards, >> including AF. >> >> Which liquid I could use to clean the mount contacts on the body? >> Perhaps it is time I cleaned the mount properly?! >> >> Generally I don't hmmm treat my gear any specially. I try not to >> abuse >> it but that's about as far as it gets. -- 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.

