I can check later but I think it was about 85,000. When they replaced the main board the on board counter got reset.
Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: >Larry, > >Just out of curiosity, how many exposures did your "old, worn-out" K-5 >have on it? > >Rick > > > >http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Cc: >Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 7:43 PM >Subject: My story with pro camera repair, so far > >Last summer my K-5 died. I sent it to CRIS, they quoted me something >close to what a used K-5 in better shape than mine would cost. >I just ordered a new K-5 II, then discovered pro camera repair in San >Diego. >I had CRIS send the camera there, they quoted $200 to repair, then $150 >to >remove the IR filter. > >The camera worked great for a few weeks, then it died. I sent it back >to PCR >and eventually heard back that the main board had died, they would do >the labor >for free, but I'd have to pay for the new board. Considering the age of >the camera, >I doubt the repair killed the board. Months go by, they think it'll be >fixed, >but then it doesn't work, they try somethng else, it still doesn't >work. > >Finally, they think it'll be done this week. It turns out that they >think it'll >need a $20 flex board, on order. > >After discussing things, they are sending me a check for $350, the cost >of my >original repair, and I'm leaving the camera there. If they manage to >fix >it, they'll contact me and I'll have the opportunity to buy the camera >back >from them. > >Outcome: I'm not happy, but I could be a lot less happy. For prompt >response, you need to call them on the phone, they tend to be days >or a week behnd in checing their email. I think that what happened is >they >got caught by an old worn out camera with lots of things going wrong >with it. >A repair shops nightmare. > >Had I not sent it to them, I'd have dead K-5 that wasn't worth >repairing. >Instead, I got several weeks of experimenting with a UV sensitive DSLR >and they've got a K-5 that probably isn't worht repairing, but which >they'll >probably have thier tech work on in his spare time. > >The yelp reviews on them are mixed, either very low, or very high. >People seem to either love them or hate them. They are a lot less >expensive >than the competition. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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.
