Fingers crossed, John! Keep us posted. 2010/3/15 John Celio <[email protected]>: > [Warning: long, rambling post ahead] > > For the longest time, I've been unable to shoot high-ISO or > long-exposure photos with my K10D. The reason was noise banding. It was > so prevalent in early K10Ds that Pentax released a firmware upgrade to > fix it, but in my camera the upgrade only reduced it slightly. > > Last month I was posting some photos to my blog. They were > underexposed, so I bumped up the exposure in Adobe Camera Raw to > compensate, which revealed the damn banding in the darker areas. Aside > from the banding, the photos were pretty good, so I tried to clean them > up and posted them anyway, with an explanation for the weird noise > pattern. > > Writing that explanation got me really mad, though. I ended up sending > a long and probably too-harshly-worded-for-tech-support-guys (who really > don't deserve it) email to Pentax about my many frustrations with my > K10D (there was more than just the noise that was bugging me). > > The Tech Support Operations Supervisor wrote back and offered a discount > if I sent the camera in for an estimate on repairs, since the camera was > well out of warranty. I wasn't really expecting anything like that, nor > could I truly afford repairs, but I decided to send the camera in > anyway, just to see what would come of it. > > About a week later I got a call with details about what they would do > and for how much. They would replace the sensor and related parts, > realign everything (all my photos were always tilted by about one > degree, no matter how level the image appeared in the viewfinder), clean > up the dust from inside the LCD cover, fix the back-focus problem, etc. > They offered to only charge for parts, and since this was a lot cheaper > than buying a new camera (or even a used K10D), I decided to go for it. > There is now a chunk more debt on my credit card, but I think it's worth > it. > > Anyway, my camera just arrived here at work. Of course, since I thought > it was going to be delivered tomorrow, I don't have a battery or > anything else to test it with, but I'm super excited to have it back. I > felt like I was missing a hand or something while my camera was gone. I > can't wait to see how the new sensor performs. I'm not expecting > massive improvement, but as long as there is no banding I'll be happy. > I'm going to try to put it to the test some time this week. > > I'll post my results when I can. > > John > > -- > http://www.jacelio.com > http://www.cafepress.com/jacelio > > > -- > 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. >
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