The shutter count on image 1 for my brand new K5 was 12, I guess it was a good one and spent little time on the bench, my K10D was at 255 on image 1
On 10 May 2013 15:17, Bipin Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
