Thanks Dario for your explanation which is: "When you buy a new camera, whose files are numbered starting from IMGP0001 or the like, you buy a shutter who has already fired a few hundred times. That's part of the manufacturing/testing process. So in case your K20D wrote files starting from IMGP0001 but a dedicated software revealed 600 shutter cycles, that perfectly normal. On the contrary if your K20D was already showing IMGP0600 from the start, that's odd".
The K20D read 625 actuations from the very first photo numbered IMGP0001 - bought from B&H in April 2009. Your logic for a new camera registering a shutter count of IMGP0625 as odd, which my K20D did not, may explain things quite clearly now. But the K-5 bought from Henrys of Toronto in January 2013 had a shutter count of just (1) from the very first photo - IMGP0001. As per the same logic it means a) the camera was not tested by Pentax-Ricoh QC or b) the shutter was fired in the QC test, but reset to (0) - Zero. And yes a K-5 II or IIs can only be manufactured by Pentax-Ricoh and not Pentax-Hoya. I stand corrected. Thanks. Brain fag Dario, I think I must start eating almonds. Regards. Bipin. PS: PDMLer Friends - do be cautious of Amazon Re-sellers or evilbay purchases. My friend got fake Gillette Mach-3 shaving blades. I got a fake Hoya UV Filter. Many folks complained of fake San Disk SDHC cards. -- 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.
