CRIS won't perform ny repairs without your authorization. They're quite reasonable and willing to negotiate.
Paul On Jul 24, 2013, at 2:23 AM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > John, can it be that any authorized camera service willing give your > sensor a proper cleaning would do? It seems to me that an experienced > camera technician (not necessarily exclusive to Pentax brand) could > help you and obviously, to clean a sensor won't cost you an arm and a > leg. > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:59 PM, John Celio > <[email protected]> wrote: >> If you take a look at the four pictures in the following gallery, you >> will see two little blobs on the right side that become clearer as the >> aperture is stopped down: >> >> http://imgur.com/a/IG40x >> (to see an image at full resolution, hover your mouse over the image, >> click the gear icon that appears and select "view full resolution.") >> >> The blob closer to the center is probably regular old dust that would >> go away with a puff from a blower ball. The other blob (the darker one >> closer to the right side), however, is a problem. It won't go away >> with air or Sensor Swabs. I even took a risk and tried a compressed >> air blast once. No dice. >> >> I'm worried it may be some sort of actual damage to the sensor, even >> though I can't really think of anything that could have caused that. >> >> My question is, which of the following would you do: >> >> A) Send it to Pentax/CRIS and see what they say. I'm worried this will >> be very expensive (as in, replace-the-sensor expensive), and I don't >> have the money to spend on repairs right now. >> B) Deal with it in Photoshop until a replacement for the K-5 comes >> out, and then start saving to get that. (I'm nearly finished paying >> off the last of my recession-incurred debts, so saving will be much >> easier starting this fall) >> >> Other ideas would be welcome, too. >> >> Thanks, >> John >> >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > Boris > > -- > 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.
