Well, yeah, the k-5 survived a tripod fall, but did get a good scuff on the bottom plate. The ring bent and my 12-24 had its mount broken. I want to kill the designer that thought putting a quick release button right next to the ball release button was a good idea. It was dark. Bad move. Still the camera worked fine after that for 4-5 months afterwards and took easily 10,000 more pictures. I took the ring off my k-7 and swapped it to the k-5 when I discovered that the ring was actually the cause of my softness issues. They went away with a good straight ring. It looks like the circuitry of the sensor is failing. You'd think that if I damaged it somehow it would immediately cause me problems.
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > A bent ring? Do you mean it has a bent lens mount? That could easily be the > cause of your problems, and it's unacceptable in any case. If the camera > looks beat up, you will probably have to pay for the repairs. If I dropped a > camera, and it landed hard enough to cause physical damage, I would want it > checked out and repaired whether the warrantee applied or not. No offense, > but it sounds like placing the blame on you wouldn't be unreasonable. Good > luck with this. I've found CRIS to be reasonable and helpful. Hope for the > best, but don't count on it. > > Paul > On Apr 28, 2013, at 4:32 PM, Zos Xavius <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So 28k clicks in and 9 months later the sensor on my k-5 is now >> randomly throwing green bars across my images. I'm going to send it in >> under warranty. It has some cosmetic damage. What should I expect from >> CRIS? Will they try to place the blame on me because the bottom plate >> has some nice scuffs in it and the LCD cover is nicely scratched up? I >> had to take the bent k-mount ring from my k-7 and replace it with the >> good one from the k-5. So it has a bent ring on it too. I'd hate to >> send this in and end up with a $400 bill because I don't think >> dropping the camera 4-5 months ago caused the problem I'm having now >> after at least another 10k actuations. >> >> -- >> 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.
