lol... or maybe hoya has a satellite in orbit after all transmitting k10d self destruct sequences...
2011/2/7 Rick Womer <[email protected]>: > 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. > -- 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.

