Damn, well that's the way I feel right now anyway. Weekend before last
I went to Florida for a wedding, (to be in it, not to photograph it),
but I brought along my trusty K20D anyway. Well I tested it out the
night before and everything was functioning fine, and the morning of the
big event I take the prepared bag out of the air conditioned hotel room
and head out into the Florida heat. I get to the wedding and take out
the camera to take a few shots.
Hum, seems a little blurry and foggy. Ah, the lens is fogged by the
humidity. I clear that off.
Hum, still a bit blurry, must be some on the viewfinder lens. I remove
the Pentax(tm) 1.2x magnifier and discover that the viewfinder lens has
cracked!
I think it was the change in temperature, I'm pretty sure I didn't
bang the camera anywhere and the rear viewfinder was protected by the
Magnifying eyecup, (M-OE-53), in the last hell 40 plus years of breaking
equipment, I've never seen this happen before.
After the last year of three hard drive failures and the probable death
of my wide carriage printer it's enough to make me take up painting,
even though I'd suck...
Now I'm in a quandary, do I send the K20D to Pentax for repair or
suffer through until January when I expect the remaining stocks of K-5
cameras to begin to hit my price point? I guess I'll have to get it
fixed eventually as I was planning to use it as a backup....
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Don't lose heart, they might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a
lengthly search.
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