Sorry to hear of your problems. Like I said, I've found CRIS to be helpful. Perhaps they'll be able to help you. If it were me, I might sell the K-7 to fund repairs on the K-5. Best of luck with this.
Paul On Apr 28, 2013, at 5:18 PM, Zos Xavius <[email protected]> wrote: > Also I never sent it in to be checked out, because quite honestly I've > been exceptionally poor lately and cannot afford hundreds of dollars > in repair bills. I also have a blown metz flash that needs sent in > right now and thats another 160 I don't have at the moment. It still > worked fine for months until now. I never had any real issues other > than the bent ring that I replaced and that was the only thing that > seemed wrong. The lcd screen is a little scratchy, but heck pentax > sells replacements so they can't fault me for that too much. I was > just curious if anyone was ever in the same boat as me on this list. > If they want $400 to replace the sensor, I'm probably out of luck at > this moment in time. I've seen some other pentax cameras, and I get > the feeling that pentaxians can be a bit hard on their gear. I try to > never drop cameras, but disasters happen as I've sadly learned. > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Zos Xavius <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. -- 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.
