On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have no idea how other brands fare as student cameras, but consistent > multiple failures is a serious issue. Is there anyone at Pentax I could > point him to? At the very least, they might find his class a good source of > "torture testing", as the cameras probably get a lot more usage than the vast > majority of entry level cameras. His problems are kind of a shame, because I > think that a big part of the reason that the K1000 was such an iconic student > camera was its robustness. >
Okay...here's some observation in the school I teach in: 1. The Fuji S2s (ca.2002) are now dead. 2. The Nikon D70s (2004) are barely hanging on; some the LCDs are gone, some the buttons or dials does not work anymore and in some the viewfinder LEDs are dead. 3. The Canon 350Ds (2003? but they outwardly appear to be newer compared to the D70s) are beginning to go "Error 99" but when they work...they work. There are a couple of Canon 5Ds but are kept for faculty use; there are newer Canon 450Ds and Nikon D90s that are farely new. I've seen students drop them, allow them to swing off the strap to hit desk and what have you and even heard of a story of a student actually poking the sensor with his finger to see what "photo" would come out (I suppose while on B with the lens off)... Bong -- Bong Manayon http://bong.manayon.net -- 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.
