Larry, Wow, you do ~a lot~ of shooting!
85K isn't too bad considering that the MTBF was supposed to be 100K. The specs on the K-3 have a MTBF for the shutter of 300K. Rick On Dec 14, 2013, at 00:36 , Larry Colen wrote: > 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. -- 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.
