Actually, it appears that the User Stress Detector chips in both the K10D and your Toshiba are working perfectly.
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Sun, 2/6/11, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > Mean time to failure, keep saying > mean time to failure. If the shutter is designed to > fail on average at 50K actuations the bell curve will > have the failures bunch up at the mean value, but there will > be outliers. Sorry you got > one. Actually sorry you got one on the > wrong end of the curve. The shutter's still mostly > mechanical though, it might just be dirt a CLA might fix the > problem Maybe not that expensive a fix. > > On 2/6/2011 5:45 PM, eckinator wrote: > > My K10D's shutter seems to be on the way south... lots > of > > underexposures, some images all black and a few > instances of "failing > > curtain sync" with the bottom third of the image pitch > black... and > > the shutter has less than 20,000 actuations on it... > that makes 3 > > lenses out of 4 defective at some point (one to the > point of > > replacement) plus a body that has seen some repairs > and is now > > readying to die prematurely - what is it with Pentax > QC? I'm /this/ > > close to dumping all my stuff into the bay... > > > > > -- Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an > Earth-shattering Kaboom! > > --Marvin the Martian. > > > -- 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. > -- 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.

